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...such a cost had Marshal von Bock thrust into the Caucasus and heaved his tank-bristling lines to the Don bend where, with seemingly inexhaustible waves of men and weapons, he was making his greatest bid for a breakthrough to Stalingrad and the Volga. At such a cost had Marshal Timoshenko kept his Red Army virtually intact, with supply lines still open to the Caucasus oilfields and munitions centers to the east. Whether the awful costs had been worth it to either, whether they could afford such expenditure of human life and weapons would be tallied only after the battle...
Certainly the onrushing waves of Germans indicated that Bock was still able to be prodigal in his attempt to cut the Volga, to push the Red Army back into Asia, to leave it a weakened mass incapable of engaging the full German military might. If that were accomplished on the southern front, Bock could consider his forces well spent. Then, if an offensive in the north were to close the Arctic ports, Russia would indeed be cut off from her Allies; the Red Army, starved for sufficient supplies, would no longer be an immediate threat to Germanized Europe...
Made to Pattern. For administering his vastly complicated domain, with its endless problems of supply, intelligence, defense against air raids and life among the unpredictable conquered, Gerd von Rundstedt was born and raised. Facing him and others of his pattern-Junkers Bock, Leeb, Reichenau-the democratic world can be thankful that by now the mold is probably broken. It is unlikely that Adolf Hitler's politics-ridden machine can ever produce the kind of officer that the Reich, from Moltke to Kaiser Wilhelm, poured forth in dazzling profusion...
...Stalingrad front Bock was at a disadvantage in transportation. Railways networked behind the Russian lines and the mighty Volga gave the Red army much better access to supplies. But the weight of men & materials was on BOCK'S side. The prize, a chance to slash across the Volga, was worthy of his bloodiest efforts. More important to Russia than the Mississippi is to the U.S.. the Volga on its broad back carries the steel, oil. ore. tanks, guns and food of a vast chain of industrial cities stretching from its headwaters, between Leningrad and Moscow, to the salty...
Once across the Volga, Bock's armies could well rest, counting 1942 a year of victory. The way would be clear for Germany to strike another body blow at battered Russia, perhaps in the far north against supply lines from across the seas, perhaps at Moscow, where proud Fedor von Bock has a haunting defeat to sponge from his Prussian escutcheon...