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To the north and the south of Neffe, the same open landscape spread out, over which the Americans had a perfect view from their higher-lying positions in Bastogne (the altitude difference is up to 200 feet). Since the Germans on 18 December had conquered Neffe east of Bastogne, this was the frontline just outside the entrance to the city, but to assault in this area, the attacker would have to advance across almost completely flat plains against a defender-the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment-which was entrenched in stone buildings. The battle was fought in the surrounding villages, on the major fields that spread out to the north, the west, the south and the east of the town, and in the forests in the northeast and the southwest. But the battle for Bastogne was no urban warfare. The town itself was no more about a mile and a half in length from the southwest to the northeast along the railway line Libramont - Sankt Vith, and extended about a thousand yards from the west to the east. 101st Airborne Division reached the town before the Germans, was a serious dash of the Nazi dictatorвЂ™s plans. Therefore, in his instructions for Operation вЂ™Wacht am RheinвЂ™/ вЂ™Herbstnebel,вЂ™ Hitler had particularly stressed how important it was to take this town. Panzerarmee was advancing on its march towards the Meuse. It was the most important communications hub in the area where the 5. Several of the most important roads in the region converged here- roads leading from Sankt Vith and Houffalize in the north, from Clervaux in the east, from Arlon and NeufchГўteau in the south, and from Marche in the west.

In 1944 the town had a population of about four thousand people, and had an important station on the railway between Libramont in the southwest and Sankt Vith in the north. Here, on the plains between the hilly areas around Wiltz in the east and at Houffalize and La Roche in the northwest, everything from nomads in prehistory to later-day traders and armies have passed in a north - south direction.

This is the story of the Battle of Bastogne.Д«astogne is an ancient communications hub. In this area of death and destruction, forests were burned and sooty, and fields plowed up by countless shells were riddled with smashed, twisted and burned military equipment of all kinds. How many human lives this claimed has never been possible to determine, but close to sixty percent of the town was destroyed, as well as most of the eighty villages and smaller communities that lay within a ten-mile radius of the town. During a couple of bloody winter weeks, both Americans and Germans deployed the best of what they had available on the Western Front in a tug of war over who would ultimately come out on top in the ruins of Bastogne. This expression could just as well be used to summarize the completely mad and furious battle that raged for this small Belgian town. commander in Bastogne and the deputy commander of the 101st Airborne Division, when the Germans urged him to surrender on 22 December 1944. вЂ™NutsвЂ™-thus replied Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe, the U.S. paratrooper of 101st Airborne Division in December 19

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