Allies

The Battle of the Bulge and the Betrayal of Trust

In December 1944, General Patton was preparing to attack the Saar.

Meanwhile, American intelligence lost track of the German Sixth Panzer Army.

Despite warnings of a German counterattack, General Eisenhower decided to focus Allied strength elsewhere.

This decision led to the Battle of the Bulge, as the Germans launched an attack against a weak portion of our lines.

If giving him that chance is to be condemned by historians, their condemnation should be directed at me alone. Eisenhower

By December 26th, the German drive had stopped and most of the lost ground had been recovered within three weeks.

Post-battle, the Western ground attack on Germany was not resumed until February 8, 1945.

Two months later, a pincers was extended eastward, north and south of the Ruhr. Two months later

On April 1st, this closed to complete the encirclement of the great industrial area.

Seventeen days later, Field Marshal Model surrendered his 325,000 Germans and killed himself.

Eisenhower, following the victory in the Ruhr, ignored Berlin and drove directly eastward toward Dresden.

These decisions permitted the Soviet forces to 'liberate' all the capital cities of Central Europe.

Budapest fell to the Russians on February 13th, followed by Vienna on April 13th.

Russian forces encircled Berlin and made contact with American troops 70 miles at Torgau on the Elbe

Despite multiple attempts by prominent Germans to surrender on the Western front, these offers were rejected.

Eisenhower's decisions allowed the Russians to occupy vast expanses of central and eastern Europe, while refusing to allow Germany to surrender on the western front while continuing to fight the Russians in the east.

The aftermath of these decisions was a period of calculated destruction by the Russian occupation forces.

Stories of Russian depravity are legion, with widespread looting, rape, and destruction of homes.

Not only were the women and children hiding from the Russian soldiers but also the men from the Russian women soldiers.
They raped half-grown girls and screaming grandmothers; they robbed the peasants of their animals, furniture and linen.

Tens of thousands of women and children were carried off and inflicted with venereal diseases by ruthless Red soldiers...

"The barbarism of the Soviet occupation forces can best be judged by the fact that many thousands of Hungarian men were raped by Russian women soldiers.

The Russian troops behaved with a depraved frenzy that hasn't been surpassed in intensity since the commencement of human history!

Hundreds of thousands of Russians, Poles, Hungarians and others fled west in the face of this avalanche of terror.

the people were classified as 'displaced persons' by the Allied authorities. Eisenhower's supreme headquarters issued a 'guide to the care of displaced persons in Germany,' dated May 1945.

This specifically stated: 'after identification by Soviet Repatriation Representatives, Soviet displaced persons will be repatriated regardless of their individual wishes." They will be returned to their countries of nationality or former residence without regard to their personal wishes.

It was Eisenhower who gave Stalin's monstrous plan of vengeance and warning all its teeth and its total effectiveness."

The forced repatriation of close to two million hapless individuals - to death or slavery- was the official policy of the Allied High Command.

It was known as Operation Keelhaul.
Official records of this action are still classified as 'top secret' by official Washington.
Like other documents of a similar nature, they are still too 'hot' to release.

This tragedy was not confined to Germany. "A small part of the tragedy unfolded even on American soil. Many liberated Soviet soldiers were brought to the USA, chiefly to camps in Idaho. But they were forced to board Soviet ships in Seattle and Portland. Over a hundred who resisted successfully werer brought to a New Jersey camp. In the end these, too, were surrendered to Stalin.

This was the betrayal of trust that resulted from the Battle of the Bulge.

for those who would apologize for Eisenhower, saying he was only following orders, more deaths resulted from Eisenhower's wholehearted compliance with 'orders' than from the actions of any of the German generals who also 'followed orders' during WWII. The German leaders were executed as 'war criminals,' but Eisenhower,

despite all his brutal crimes against humanity, was praised and exalted. He later became president of the United States.