Crusade in Europe
Season 1
Ep 21. Crossing The Rhine
- TV-PG
- September 22, 1949
- 20 min
With the Germans pushed back to their original positions - which they held before the Battle of the Bulge, the Allies concentrated on clearing out all Nazi troops west of the Rhine. This difficult assignment was carried out by three Allied Army groups - under the command of Field Marshall Montgomery and U.S. Generals Bradley and Devers. Film moves briefly to the Nazi's eastern from where the Russians drove them back 300 miles in 60 days.