By 1944, Nazi Germany’s thousand-year Reich was in its death throes. Still, Adolf Hitler hoped for deliverance in the form of a last-ditch offensive through the forested Ardennes to split the Western Allies as his armies had done four-and-a-half years before. By this time, total victory was impossible. But the Führer believed he could force the war-weary British and cautious Americans to the negotiating table and redirect the entirety of the 10 million-man strong German Army (Wehrmacht) to repelling the Bolshevik menace in the East that threatened Germany with total annihilation. It was a desperate gamble that turned into the largest battle in American military history. And it could have had a far different outcome. Here are five little known facts about the Battle of the Bulge:
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