The beginning of the Battle of Bulge

The leader of the Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler knows that he is losing the war. His troops in the Western Europe have been retreating since D-day. However, he still believes that he can turn the tides and make the Allies to give up fighting, ignoring the Soviet Union and make a peace agreement with Germany. If Hitler’s plan works, then he can focus on the eastern sector to fight against the Soviet Union. And hopefully win the war. So he and his generals make a plan secretly and without using the telegraph so the Allies don’t know what the plan is. On 12 December 1944, the Nazi Germany had sent out 4 troops attacking Allies from western Germany in 4 different directions. And the Allies were shock because they didn’t know that the Nazi is going to have a huge attack to the western frontline. At the first two days of the battle, Nazi Germany had control the battlefield and the Allies are retreating from the frontline.

Before the Nazi Germany start attacking, they had made a plan called “Operation Greif”. This plan is to form a group of Nazi Germany soldiers that can speak good English, let them wear the American soldiers clothes and go into American camps. Their mission is to slow down the Allies army by destroying the telephone wire, changing the signpost and spread wrong information. Their plan had work out until the Allies find out the Nazi soldiers in their camps. The Allies find out these Nazi soldiers by asking them some questions that only American soldiers know. For example, who is Mickey Mouse’s girlfriend or where is the capital of Illinois...etc.