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Show GERMANS EXPLAIN SUCCESS OF ALLIED FORCES German radio stations, which before be-fore D-Day, boasted that the Atlantic At-lantic Wall was impregnable, blame Nazi retreats in Normany chiefly to "the constant hail of shells from giant guns of Allied warships" and Lieut-General Kurt Dietmar, military mili-tary commentator, declares that the "soldiers of the Reich are faced with superiority in everything that can be expressed in numerical terms." Berlin reports that German officers of-ficers and soldiers, "veterans from Russia, North Africa and Italy, are unanimous in saying the vicious vici-ous battle in Normany is the grimmest grim-mest fighting they've experienced in the war," and Gunther Weber, newspaper correspondent, says that the American soldier "has improved improv-ed since the first landing in Sicily" Sici-ly" and the "British soldier has put aside his principle of safety-first." safety-first." Other enemy propagandists tell of the "armada of bombers" available avail-able to support Anglo-American land forces and Vice-Admiral Luet-zow Luet-zow admits that it is impossible for light German craft to oppose the "overwhelming superiority of j the Allied fleet." |