English translation of "amenée par le reﬂux de la Wehrmacht" - "a company that arrived when the Wehrmacht withdrew"

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27 months ago

Barbara R. Cochran, MFA asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	General
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	amenée par le reﬂux de la Wehrmacht
Context:	Peu après, le 16 juillet 1944, une lettre signée par le général von Stuelpnagel lui-même interdit aux véhicules de l’armée de stationner dans le parc et les dépendances de Brissac. Seuls les détachements commandés par des gradés eurent désormais le droit de pénétrer dans le domaine. Cependant, le 11 août 1944, une compagnie amenée par le reﬂux de la Wehrmacht lança des grenades dans les rues avoisinantes. Six ou sept feldgraus, vociférant et ivres, ﬁrent irruption au château. Ils se retirèrent laissant derrière eux le corps d’un gardien tué à bout portanta sur les marches de l’escalier alors qu’il défendait l’accès aux collections.

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27 months ago

Charles Ferguson wrote:

accommodated by the Wehrmacht retreat

My comment:

instinct

27 months ago

plaisirsdelavie wrote:

a company brought along with the ebb tide of the withdrawing Wehrmacht

My comment:

I think I had to translate the image of "reflux"

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27 months ago

plaisirsdelavie wrote:

Or: Marooned there by the retreating Wehrmacht. Retreating rather than withdrawing, since a withdrawal can be provisional before a counter-attack whereas a retreat is definitive. Marrooned translates both the idea of a flow and that of leaving sb in a place.

27 months ago

CMD wrote:

a company wheeled in with the Wehrmacht's to-ing and fro-ing threw ...

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27 months ago

plaisirsdelavie wrote:

There's no to-ing and fro-ing here. The Germans are retreating because the allied forces are going to win the war. It's a one-way ticket back home for the Germans!!!

27 months ago

martynback wrote:

a company that arrived when the Wehrmacht withdrew

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