Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

“There is the area of the northern ports, Kiel-Luebeck-Hamburg-Bremen. Its occupation would not only give us control of the German Navy and the North Sea bases, of the Kiel Canal and of a large industrial area, but would enable us to form a barrier against the withdrawal of German Forces from Norway and Denmark. Further, this area, or a part of it, might have to be occupied as a flank protection to our thrust to Berlin. “There are the areas of Hanover-Brunswick and Leipzig-Dresden. They are important industrial and administrative areas and centers of communications, on the direct routes from the Ruhr and Frankfurt to Berlin, so the Germans will probably hold them as intermediate positions covering Berlin.