ABSTRACT
It is perhaps fitting that the most horrendous conflict in human history ended under the most appalling circumstances. One last, desperate German offensive in the Ardennes in December 1944 became for Americans the costliest engagement of the war in Europe, and in the months ahead the fighting became increasingly tough as the Germans were pushed back behind their own borders. Finally, in the last month of the war, the Allies uncovered the death camps—an atrocity on a horrific scale.
