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	Gerd von Rundstedt
		Gerd von Rundstedt, the son of a military officer, was born in Aschersleben, Germany, on December 12, 1875.
		Rundstedt was unhappy with the growing power of Adolf Hitler over the army and resigned from office on October 31, 1938.
		As a result of the July Plot, Rundstedt agreed to join Heinz Guderian and Wilhelm Keitel on the Army Court of Honour that expelled hundreds of officers suspected of being opposed to the policies of Adolf Hitler.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/rundstedt.html (755 words)

	Gerd von Rundstedt
		After the war Rundstedt rose steadily in the small 100,000 man army and in 1932 was appointed commander of the 3rd Infantry Division.
		Rundstedt was unhappy with the growing power of Adolf Hitler over the army and resigned from office on 31st October 1938.
		Rundstedt led seven panzer divisions, three motorized divisions, and 35 infantry divisions during the invasion of France.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERrundstedt.htm (1367 words)

	Cross-Channel Attack-Chapter 4
		Rundstedt was thereby encouraged to re-examine ways and means of shaking his army loose from the concrete of the Atlantic Wall, and the question of how the battle for France was to be fought was posed again with a new urgency.
		Rundstedt maintained that a rigid defense in a series of strong points held to the last could so splinter and weaken the enemy that his penetrations could easily be cleaned up and the whole invasion attempt thus be defeated before the enemy's superior material force could be concentrated and gain momentum.
		Rundstedt's own orders with their dual emphasis on holding coastal positions to the last and at the same time building mobile reserves, while in one sense perfectly consistent, were nevertheless subject to interpretation as supporting either primarily static or primarily mobile defense.
	www.army.mil /CMH/books/wwii/7-4/7-4_4.htm (11322 words)

	Gerd von Rundstedt Summary
		General von Rundstedt had doubts about the survivability of these units without infantry support, and asked for a pause while they caught up; this has given rise to the misconception that the halt that allowed the British to evacuate the Continent at Dunkirk was of Rundstedt's making.
		In November Rundstedt had a heart attack, but he refused to be hospitalized and continued the advance, reaching Rostov on November 21.
		Although he was Commander of the Western forces during the offensive to retake Antwerp, which failed against hopeless odds in what would be known as the Battle of the Bulge, he was opposed to that offensive from its inception and essentially washed his hands of it.
	www.bookrags.com /Gerd_von_Rundstedt (1734 words)

	Battle of the Bulge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ardennes Offensive (called Unternehmen: Wacht am Rhein by the German military Army Gruppe B), officially named the Battle of the Ardennes by the U.S. Army (and known to the general public as the Battle of the Bulge), started on December 16, 1944.
		The German High Command decided by the middle of September, on Hitler's insistence, that the offensive be mounted in the Ardennes, as was done in France in 1940.
		The 6th SS Panzer Army was designated the northernmost attack force, with the offensive's primary objective of capturing Antwerp entrusted to it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ardennes_Offensive (8265 words)

	Gerd von Rundstedt
		Gerd von Rundstedt, the son of a military officer, was born in Aschersleben, Germany, on 12th December 1875.
		Rundstedt was unhappy with the growing power of Adolf Hitler over the army and resigned from office on 31st October 1938.
		Rundstedt was promoted to field marshal on 19th July 1940 and took part in the planning of Operation Sealion.
	www.world-war-2.info /figures/gerd-von-rundstedt.php (793 words)

	Battle of the Bulge
		The Ardennes Offensive, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge, was the last major German offensive on the Western Front in World War II.
		At about this time the massive Soviet summer 1944 offensive burnt itself out in eastern Poland, and the war paused.
		The German Wacht am Rhein ("Watch on the Rhine) plan for the "Von Rundstedt Offensive[?]" was to split the Allied advance and then cut nortwards to seize Antwerp.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ar/Ardennes_Offensive.html (528 words)

	Chapter 2-THE ARDENNES: BATTLE OF THE BULGE
		Rundstedt, Commander in Chief West, was not informed of the impending operation; indeed at this stage he did not even know that Hitler envisaged a counteroffensive in the west.
		Rundstedt's answer, sent to Jodl on 3 November, followed the German military tradition by which a commander was entitled to state his objection to orders for the record.
		Rundstedt, on the other hand, hoped to deny the enemy the ability to mass for a counterthrust by employing a double envelopment, the two prongs of the attack moving simultaneously from their jump-off positions.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/7-8/7-8_2.htm (5497 words)

	Lone Sentry: von Rundstedt Explains the German Defeat (U.S. WWII Intelligence Bulletin, March 1946)
		According to Von Rundstedt, the wall consisted of a few pillboxes in holes in the sand so far apart that "you needed field glasses to see the next one." The only good thing was the fortresses, such as Cherbourg and Brest, but they were all fortified only toward the sea.
		Von Rundstedt's plan, which was turned down, was to withdraw the armored forces behind the Orne, form up the relieving infantry there, and then take away the tanks from in front and use them as mobile units to attack U.S. forces on the flanks.
		Pointing to the German offensive in 1940 from Trier toward Luxembourg and Calais, Von Rundstedt explained that a vast number of troops were available simply to cover the flanks and protect the spearhead.
	www.lonesentry.com /articles/rundstedt/index.html (2748 words)

	Von Rundstedt
		Gerd vond Rundstedt, the son of a military officer, was born in Aschersleben, Germany, on 12th December 1875.
		By 1918 he had reached the rank of major and was chief of staff of his division.After the war Rundstedt rose steadily in the small 100,000 man army and in 1932 was appointed commander of the 3rd Infantry Division.
		Although 64 years old, Rundstedt was recalled to the army on the outbreak of the Second World War and in September 1939 led Army Group South into Poland.In 1940 Rundstedt was quick to see the merits of the plan devised by Erich von Manstein to invade France.
	www.germandaggers.info /vonrundstedt.htm (710 words)

	Battle of the Bulge at AllExperts
		The Ardennes Offensive (called Operation Wacht Am Rhein by the German military of the time), officially named the Battle of the Ardennes by the U.S. Army (and known to the general public as the Battle of the Bulge), started on December 16, 1944.
		The offensive was also counter-productive as many experienced units of the German army were left depleted and in a poor state of supply outside the defenses of the Siegfried Line.
		The 6th SS Panzer Army was designated the northernmost attack force, with the offensive's primary objective of capturing Antwerp entrusted to it.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/ba/battle_of_the_bulge.htm (7456 words)

	Military History Online
		Thus began the "Rundstedt Offensive" which very soon became (some say with Churchill's help) the "Battle of the Bulge" and was officially entitled "The Ardennes Offensive".
		Each of these titles was significant; the first because Field Marshall Von Rundstedt, considered at the time to be the best of the German generals, was thought to be the planner of it, as well as the master who executed it; (The plan was Hitler's brainchild, and the OKW (top army staff) organized it.
		Von Rundstedt, while in nominal command, had nothing to do with it, having correctly predicted that it was doomed to failure from the start).
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/articles/bastogne.aspx (2731 words)

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		Page 20 "Rundstedt Offensive," as this appellation was broadcast to the world by the Allies in December 1944.
		Advice from Rundstedt was consistently pigeonholed by Jodl or brushed aside by Hitler, except in those rare cases when Jodl found it expedient to quote Rundstedt, the field commander, in support of a position being developed by the WFSt.
		The force making up the northern arm in Rundstedt's scheme, the XII SS Corps, was too weak to carry through a simultaneous secondary attack; nor would Model agree to further reduction of the main effort as a step in beefing up the northern thrust.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/wwii/Battle.of.Bulge/Green.Book/chap_02.txt (5526 words)

	A Tribute to World War II 26th Infantry Division History
		On 7 October the 26th relieved the 4th Armored Division in the Salonnes-Moncourt-Canal du Rhine au Marne sector, and maintained defensive positions; a limited objective attack was launched, 22 October, in the Moncourt woods.
		On 8 November the Division went on the offensive, took Dieuze, 20 November, advanced across the Saar River to Saar Union, and captured it, 2 December, after house-to-house fighting.
		Rest at Metz was interrupted by the Von Rundstedt offensive.
	www.26yd.com /p3 (438 words)

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		The Ardennes Offensive (called Unternehmen: Wacht am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine) by the German military (Heeresgruppe B), officially named the Battle of the Ardennes by the U.S. Army (and known to the general public as the Battle of the Bulge), started on December 16, 1944.
		Moreover, the degree of surprise achieved was compounded by Allied overconfidence, preoccupation with their own offensive plans, poor aerial reconnaissance, and the relative lack of combat contact by the U.S. 1st Army.
		Eisenhower and his principal commanders realised by 17 December that the fighting in the Ardennes was a major offensive and not a local counter-attack, and ordered vast reinforcements to the area.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Battle_of_the_Bulge (8247 words)

	Informat.io on Battle Of The Bulge
		The Ardennes Offensive (called Unternehmen: Wacht Am Rhein by the German military of the time), officially named the Battle of the Ardennes by the U.S. Army (and known to the general public as the Battle of the Bulge), started on December 16, 1944.
		Although the German objective was ultimately unrealized, the Allies' slow response to the penetration set their own offensive timetable back by months.
		Each of the Allied generals pressed for all of the rations to be given to his own army, in order to bring at least a single army to full supply for an offensive.
	www.informat.io /?title=battle-of-the-bulge (7540 words)

	vrtnieuws.net - Battle of the Bulge commemorated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This operation is known as the Von Rundstedt Offensive in Germany.
		Hitler attempted to reverse the tide of the war by launching a surprise offensive.
		The offensive was brought to a halt after two days thanks to dogged resistance by US forces.
	www.vrtnieuws.net /nieuwsnet_master/versie2/english/details/060509_Bulge/index.shtml (306 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Cross Channel Invasion [Chapter 4]
		Field Marshal Rundstedt, still in command of Army Group A (the force earmarked for SEELOEWE), was concurrently appointed Commander in Chief West with full command over Army Group A and tactical command over Army Group D and Armed Forces Commander Netherlands (Wehrmachtbefehlshaber Niederlande).
		Rundstedt's appointment as Commander in Chief West as "acting" as of 8 March and was made permanent on 1 May 1942.
		The figures given by Rundstedt in his report as of 1 October 1943 were 36 infantry and 17 mobile divisions.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-E-XChannel/USA-E-XChannel-4.html (13342 words)

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		The Rundstedt offensive had come as a surprise, and the Allied staffs for once were finding themselves less well-in-formed than the enemy.
		To remedy this state of affairs the 122 Wing of the R.A.F. was sent to Holland and equipped with Tempests.
		It was a crack unit and on it depended the entire offensive and tactical system of the British front.
	events.hitechcreations.com /squadops/sops_detail.php?sops_id=15 (383 words)

	British Expeditionary Force
		Rundstedt's offensive cut communications between French and British commands and left the BEF surrounded on three sides.
		General John Gort attempted to halt the German Western Offensive by launching a counter-attack against the German Army at Arras.
		The attack on 21st May, 1940, could not be sustained and Gort decided to withdraw to Dunkirk so that his army could be evacuated to Britain.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWbef.htm (431 words)

	Seventh Army and Nordwind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		General von Rundstedt's counter-offensive in Belgium and Luxembourg was to make the last ten days of December an anticlimax for Seventh Army.
		For the last ten days of December patrols were active along the front in an effort to impress the fact upon the enemy that, as XV Corps put it, "No Man's Land belongs to the Corps and not to the German forces opposing it.
		The 14th Armored Division, in VI Corps reserve near Bouxwiller, was ordered to prepare for counterattack to the right flank of XV Corps, in the Strasbourg area, or to the south toward Selestat.
	www.trailblazersww2.org /divisionhistory/seventh_nordwind.htm (2337 words)

	battle_of_the_bulge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This offensive has several other names, including the Von Rundstedt Offensive (in reality von Rundstedt had little to do with it) and, officially to the U.S. Army, the Ardennes-Alsace Campaign.
		A trucking system known as the Red Ball Express was instituted to bring supplies to fron line troops; however, for every gallon of fuel that reached the front line near the Belgian border, five gallons of fuel had been expended delivering it.
		There is no evidence that Hitler realized, or any of his military staff pointed out, that of all the major combatants the United States was the one which up to this point in the war had been damaged the least and had the greatest restorative powers.
	www.dasboots.com /wiki/?title=Battle_of_the_Bulge (7664 words)

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		Hitler’s reaction to Von Rundstedt's attitude was to relieve him.
		Three months after his dismissal, Von Rundstedt was again appointed OB West.
		Von Rundstedt had followed Montgomery's actions during the war and knew that Montgomery would not attack before everything was arranged in great detail.
	www.rememberseptember44.com /plan3.htm (550 words)

	CHAPTER XII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Rundstedt offensive caught them at this position and owing to their magnificent stand at Diekirch the Germans were unable to capture nd at Diekirch the Germans were unable to capture the city of Luxembourg.
		The Division had been on the offensive and its lines had advanced to the general line of the Pruin River.
		The Division was ahead of the two flanking outfits, the 87th on the left and the 90th on the right, so orders were received on the 11th of February to hold that position.
	web.mit.edu /stewy/www/610TD/CHAPTERXII.html (2859 words)

	THE ARDENNES: BATTLE OF THE BULGE (II)
		Later, at Nuremberg Rundstedt would say that the Meuse bridgeheads and Liege actually were the ultimate objectives.
		[4] The relations between Rundstedt and Model are described by one of the latter's staff officers Thuisko von Metzch, in an unpublished report made for the Office of the Chief of Military History in 1952, Charles V. von Luttichau, Report on the Interview With Mr.
		Instructions issued by Hitler for the con- duct of operations were in such detail that field commanders of the stature of Rundstedt and Model lacked the authority to move units as small as divisions.
	mr-home.staff.shef.ac.uk /bulge/7-8_2.html (5788 words)

	Lone Sentry: Railsplitters: The Story of the 84th Infantry Division -- WWII G.I. Stories Booklet
		The German drive halted, the 84th was shifted to the northern side of the Bulge von Rundstedt had created.
		The Meuse-Argonne offensive and an epidemic of influenza had created a vast manpower shortage, and the 84th, like many other divisions, was used as a reinforcement pool.
		The Ninth was an offensive army and the 84th became one of its hardest-hitting spearheads.
	www.lonesentry.com /gi_stories_booklets/84thinfantry/index.html (5407 words)

	Footnotes from Beyond the Zero, part III - Kaedrin Weblog
		The prose is beautiful and thick with historical references, and so when I come upon a particularly interesting passage or historical tidbit, I note it here.
		Rundstedt offensive : Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953) was one of Adolf Hitler's most respected military leaders in World War II.
		In 1944, this German field marshal directed the Ardennes offensive (most famous for the Battle of the Bulge).
	kaedrin.com /weblog/archive/000710.html (497 words)

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