Why Bradley Stopped Patton from Closing the Falaise Gap - 50,000 Germans Who Fought at the Bulge
Автор: WWII Stories Core
Загружено: 2025-12-24
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On August 13, 1944, General George Patton’s Third Army was just fifteen miles from sealing the Falaise Pocket, a move that could have trapped more than 100,000 German troops. Instead, General Omar Bradley ordered Patton to halt at Argentan and wait for Montgomery’s forces advancing from the north to close the gap.
Drawing on Patton’s personal diary, Bradley’s own memoirs, and postwar German interrogations, this documentary explores how that halt order kept the escape corridor open for eight critical days. During that window, between 20,000 and 50,000 experienced German soldiers managed to break out, withdraw, and reorganize. Many of those veterans later formed the backbone of SS panzer divisions that led the Ardennes offensive four months later—an offensive that inflicted roughly 80,000 American casualties, including more than 19,000 killed. The film argues that concerns over coalition politics and the risk of friendly fire ultimately outweighed the chance to end the campaign sooner, a decision whose consequences were paid for by American troops in the frozen forests of the Ardennes.
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