Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Bayan nasarar mamayewa na Normandy da kuma turawa ta gabas ta hanyar Faransa, Allied front lines ya fadada daga Nijmegen a arewa har zuwa Switzerland mai tsaka tsaki a kudu. An kama birnin Antwerp mai tashar jiragen ruwa mai tamani a lokacin da aka kai hari, kuma a lokacin da hunturu ya zo, 'Yan Allied sun mallaki yankin Jamus kusa da birnin Aachen. Adolf Hitler ba da daɗewa ba ya tsara shirin kai hari kan layin Allied a Belgium da Luxembourg; Rukunin 25 za su kaddamar da harin ba zato ba tsammani ta hanyar Ardennes, da nufin ƙetare Kogin Meuse (wanda ake kira Maas a Jamusanci da Yaren mutanen Holland) da kuma sake kama Antwerp. Duk da manyan shakku daga manyan kwamandojinsa, ciki har da Gerd von Rundstedt da Walther Model, ba a canza shirin ba kuma an saita ranar tsallewa a ranar 16 ga Disamba, 1944. A halin yanzu, kwamandojin Allied sun yi la'akari da yankin Ardennes ba su dace da babban harin Jamus ba, musamman saboda matsalolin ƙasa. Bugu da ƙari, rahotannin leken asiri sun nuna cewa ƙungiyoyin Jamus kawai da aka kafa a yankin sun gaji, kuma a cikin makonni da suka kai hari, babu kwamandan Allied da ya ga dalilin da zai yi imani cewa harin ya kusa. Bastogne, birni mai mahimmanci wanda ya yi umurni da hanyoyi masu muhimmanci a yankin, ya kare shi ne ta hanyar 28th Infantry Division, wanda ya ga ci gaba da fada daga 22 Yuli zuwa 19 Nuwamba, kafin a sanya shi zuwa wannan yanki mai zaman lafiya. Allies sun yi imanin cewa kawai ƙungiyar 'yan bindigar ta kasance a gaban 28th Infantry, kuma sun yi imanin cewa duk wani hari a wannan ɓangaren zai iyakance a cikin sikelin. Hanyoyi guda bakwai a ciki da wajen Bastogne suna da mahimmanci ga motsi na makamai na Jamus, suna sa Allied riƙe da hanyoyi ya zama dole.  Tambaya: Yaushe ne 'yan kawancen suka shiga yankin Jamus?
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