Nostradamus has predicted:

The Germans' Defeat in Perugia
The Conflict Eisenhower-Alexander

According to my own method of interpretation,
only french lines in dark blue will be analysed and interpreted


Quatrain VIII-72

Champ Perusin ô l'énorme défaite
Et le conflit tout auprès de Ravenne:
Passage sacre lorsqu'on fera la fête,
Vainqueur vaincu, cheval manger l'aveine

In the fields of Perugia, an enormous defeat,
And the conflict near Ravenna:
The passage of a bird during a feast,
Victor defeated, the horse eats the oats.
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Analysis:

Champ Perusin
conflit

Perugian fields: seems to refer to a battle field. conflict: figuratively, dissension, controversy, friction, opposition,
The towns of Perugia and Ravenna do not seem to have suffered major upheavals in the course of their history, and this, up to World War II when they were pillaged by the Germans and devastated by the bombings of the allied forces.
It is true that the word conflict can be used in the sense of armed conflict, but on the battlefront, it is mostly the words, fight and battle that are used. For example, the battle, or the fight goes on... This is why I believe we have here a dissension or a controversy between two or several people.

Interpretation

In the plains of Perugia, oh what a tremendous defeat,
And the conflict near Ravenna...

Histoire

During the italian campain, the zones of operation were defined by specific sectors, in the present case the zone Terni-Perugia and the zone Ravenna-Bologna-Modena. Defined according to defense priorities, these zones, or bridgeheads, were established in strategic sectors such as mountain passes, waterways and harbour towns.
The axis Terni-Perugia was a very important bridgehead of the german army in northern Italy. These two towns were located half way between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas, and the capture of that position would deal a severe blow to the German armies whose effectives had greastly diminished:

The battle in Perugia [Pérouse]
[P.482] The task of the 8th army, as defined by general Alexander before the offensive enclenched May 11, consisted in pursuing the enemy according to the axis Terni-Perugia...The pressure of the allies kept on growing. June 17, the 5th army captured Grosseto; Elba surrendered the 19...and the next morning, the 10th corps entered Perugia. [Champ Perusin, ô l'énorme défaite]
[Translation - Les Canadiens en Italie, Lt. Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson]
Another report concerning the capture of Perugia:
During World War II, the british troops occupied Perugia after chasing the Germans in june 1944. [Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia- Infopedia CD-ROM]
The axis Ravenna-Bologna-Modena was a key position of german defenses in northern Italy. Convinced of a speedy campain to the north of Italy, general Alexander was for maintaining the two armies in their actual position. He was not in accord with general Eisenhower [le conflit tout auprès de Ravenne] who was about to take away one of his troops, the 6th army, from its position south of Ravenna. That was a major conflict between the two men as the issue would considerably slow down the advance of the allies in the north of Italy. The general obeyed the orders issued by Eisenhower's headquarters but, as he wrote later on,
[P.484] the allied commanders in Italy would suffer increasingly the effects of this subordination... [le conflit tout auprès de Ravenne]
...According to the analysts of the italian campain, it is obvious that, during this campain, Eisenhower's decision to remove the 6th army from the campain was desastrous.
[Translation - Les Canadiens en Italie, Lt. Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson]


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