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...respect he was certainly right: for a whole week the German Krieg had been without Blitz, a lightning war with the lightning extracted. Nearly three weeks had passed since the Germans announced they had broken the Stalin Line "at all vital points." and vaunted that Kiev was "on the point of falling." It had been two weeks since they announced that the Russians were throwing "their last reserves" into battle. It had been one week since they had spoken complacently of "the battle of annihilation" before Moscow...
...third target is war production, power plants and industry in general. During the German Blitz on British industries, the British maintained that the enemy had negligible success; when they did manage to hit factories, the British got them working again in a jiffy. But the R.A.F. believes it has done a little better, because its pilots have been trained in night flying and precision bombing, whereas the Germans rode in on a beam and dropped bombs near where the leader set fires...
...second, without seeing you or being seen, blows to pieces your children, your home, your life? This week I Was a Nazi Flier claimed to tell. The book purported to be the diary of pseudonymous Gottfried Leske, flight sergeant in the Luftwaffe, who took part in the great Blitz on London, Birmingham, Coventry, is now a prisoner of war in Canada...
...Armies had had successes which, according to the fustian of the Führer, "baffled the imagination." Yet this crucial Blitz was not quite on schedule; the Russians were not easy to demoralize and not cheap to beat. And every conqueror since the Tartars had broken his teeth on the Russian bite (see p. 20). He, his Führer and his soldiers might still break their military teeth beyond repair. Or they might taste the sweetest glory...
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