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The Allies pressed on either side of Nazi Germany by January 1945, grimly determined to complete their version of Vernichtungskrieg (“war of annihilation”), or total war, to drive Germans to accept unconditional surrender and evermore foreswear war as an instrument of national policy. A double-invasion of Germany ensued on a scale unimaginable by any party […]

The BEF, which had hardly been in action at all, now began its famous retreat. The fact of this retreat doomed the Belgian army, which consequently surrendered. In the many British accounts of the war, this sequence of events was reversed: The British retreated because the Belgians had quit. But in reality it was the […]