Otto Moritz Walter Model17 September 1944
1st day of the Battle of Arhem
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1st day of the Battle of Arhem
Model arranged for units to be sent straight to the units in action in order to avoid long-winded logistics, and rushed in specialist street fighting and machine gun battalions. Each day of the battle, the German military strength increased whilst the British supplies diminished. By 21 September, the fifth day of the battle, German forces outnumbered the British by 3:1 and continued to increase
Halts the Allied advance
Arnhem was a victory for the Germans (albeit tempered by their losses further south) and a major defeat for the British army.
Model moved his headquarters to Arnhem and was re-establishing defences in the area and co-ordinating the reorganisation of the scattered units so that by the time the Allies launched Market Garden there would be several units opposing them.
The Allies withdrew from the southern bank of the Rhine and the front stabilised on "the island" between the Rhine and Waal rivers.
Although the Germans counterattacked in October they were repulsed and subsequently the front line in The Netherlands would not move until after the winter
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