Friday, April 6, 2018

Lex Anteinternet: The Kaiserschlacht Stalls. Operation Michael Ends

It wouldn't be obvious, if you read the newspapers for this day, April 6, 1918, but Operation Michael was over.  Called off yesterday after the failure of a final big German push near Ancre.
Lex Anteinternet: The Kaiserschlacht Commences. March 21, 1918. Ope...:

The initial German advance had been significant, but equally significant is that the  Germans had failed to take any of their objectives and by April 5 they were halted.
The German plan had failed to achieve any of its objections and had suffered absolutely massive casualties.

But the German high command wasn't prepared to give up on the Kaiserschlacht.  Perhaps, really, it couldn't. . .

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