Nuts

Symbolic victories, plus a dozen or so other things worth knowing today

In the middle of the Battle of the Bulge, four German soldiers approached American troops, carrying white flags of truce and a letter:

“There is only one possibility to save the encircled U.S.A. troops from total annihilation: that is the honorable surrender of the encircled town.

— The German Commander”

As the story goes, the acting commander of the 101st…