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Sources:
Beevor, Anthony. Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble. New York City: Viking, 2015.

Goebbels, Joseph. Joseph Goebbels Hitlers Spindoctor: Een Selectie uit de Dagboeken 1933-1945, edited by Willem Melching and Marcel Stuivenga. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 2011.

Murray, A. Williamson. “The World at War.” In The Cambridge History of Modern Warfare, edited by Geoffrey Parker, 338-361. United States: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Thompson, Julian. Victory in Europe: From D-Day to the Destruction of the Third Reich 1944-1945. London: Carlton Books, 2012.

Winton, Harold R.. Corps Commanders of the Bulge: Six American Generals and Victory in the Ardennes. United States: University Press of Kansas, 2007.

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[mexicoball]

Every German offensive ever:
*Surprise your enemy
*Break through their lines
*Run out of supplies
*Die

[InvestmentJoy]

Sadly my uncle was captured during the battle of the bulge. He was under the 314th infantry regiment, which I believe was attached to the 79th infantry at that point. He had already participated in the defense/blocking of Cherbourg after he landed on Omaha on dday+3.

Fought to the last man of his unit, operating his 1919 till he had expended all ammo, with no other weapons available he surrendered.

He was stripped of what little cold weather gear he had, and marched with hundreds of other American pows towards Germany.

Developed frost bite on the March, but lived. I believe he was interred at the baden baden camp till liberation. Had wonderful things to say about yugo pows in the camp, as they kept the Americans alive by sharing little rations of what they had with starving Americans.

Uncle came back to the US and passed away last month at the age of 94.

[strikeforce]

Lutvids: **sends an offer to surrender**
Mcauliffe: Nuts
Lutvids: Nuts?
Mcauliffe: DEEZ NUTS, GOTTEM. But seriously, no.

[simonaspalovis]

Jimmy Fallon: "Looks like you guys are gonna be surrounded"
Bobby Axelrod: "We're paratroopers, Lieutenant - we're suppose to be surrounded."

[theresgottabeagermanwordfo]

"They want to Surrender?"
"No Sir they want us to Surrender"

Nuts!
-Anthony McAuliffe

[frankniti]

McAuliffe writing NUTS on the surrender demand is the most american thing ever.

[matta.]

My dad was a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne, 506 PIR, Company I. He told me many stories of that war, and especially of defending Bastogne against Hitler's SS Panzer divisions over Christmas, 1944. Half-frozen, half-starved, low on BAR ammunition, and only 18 years old, he fought in an unbelievably savage battle against the best soldiers that Germany had. One time, his company found a crate of potatoes in a cellar and instead of eating them, they used them as dummy grenades, mixing them in random ratios with real grenades and throwing them at the Germans. It worked. The "krauts" dove for cover, allowing Dad and other GIs to move to a new position. Imagine a perplexed German soldier looking up from the snow and seeing a potato lying next to his head!
As a boy, I remember my dad kept an SS officer's ring on his dresser. It was a silver skull with two ruby eyes -- terrifying to a 6-year-old. One day I asked Dad where he got it. His response was like a riddle to my young mind.
"From someone who didn't need it anymore". Bastogne was where the Allies drove a stake through the heart of the Nazi war machine. I am, and will always be, so very proud of Dad for choosing to fight against such an evil enemy, in such an awful war.

[bluedog]

Band of Brothers’ episodes about the Battle of The Bulge are really good at showing how the battle was a struggle for food, freezing weather, and the struggling medical situation.

[TheArmchairHistorian]

We'll be taking a two-week break and will return with another two episodes for September. We're going to also improve the green screen effect during the on-camera sections which has recently degraded in quality.

[armaholic]

The animators did an absolutely fantastic job again!

[guifdcanalli]

14:30
Even the mighty Panzer divisions are subject to the urban traffic lmao

[thomasmills]

The image of Patton on the tank holding the Flag with the giant eagle is the most glorious thing i have ever seen!! I need that poster...

[InspiredJJ]

That was an interesting depiction of Patton opening Bastogne.

[FreaKCSGOHacker]

The voice: *calm, collected, soothing*
The topic: "everyone died brutally"

[stevenamartin]

On Christmas Eve 1944 my father served at the Battle of the Bulge as a forward observer in the 75th INF. A job at that time a life with a expectancy of about 30 days. The entire 75th gets rarely mentioned, even most of the comprehensive books on the Ardennes. Interesting since the nickname went from “The Diaper Division to “The Bulge Busters” at the time.

[procyonant]

11:20 - The US 28th Infantry Division was one of the unlucky ones. It was taken after Battle of Hürtgen Forest. After the Battle of the Bulge, its emblem, the keystone - the symbol of the State of Pennsylvania - was read as "A bucket of blood".

[matthewlee]

Skorzeny walks up to an American checkpoint dressed as a cowboy.
"Gutt morning my fellow Amerikans."

[-Wedge-]

His voice is always so calming even tho he is talking about war

[inkoin]

Ah yes, the Battle of the Bulge. Had it many times in the classroom.