Word: bryansk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows the countryside. . . . His wife and his wife's sister were killed by the Germans because they found out that he was a partisan. . . . There were 33 men in Baidek's detachment, ununiformed, heavily armed and determined, roaming over the entire region between Bryansk, Orel and Tula, blowing up bridges, hunting down small groups of Germans, smashing trucks and ambushing artillery. . . . In one operation they freed 200 Russian prisoners. ... Of these 33 guerrillas, 19 survived, seven disappeared, four were killed in battle and three were hanged by the Germans...
...central front, they drove for the important Smolensk-Bryansk line...
...Berlin radio conceded retirement of German forces to new positions. Around Leningrad, Russia readied the offensive that would relieve the siege of her second city. South of Moscow Germans had been pushed back in some places more than 120 miles, and their newest stand, on a line from Bryansk to Vyazma, was breached. In the Crimea, having recaptured the naval base of Sevastopol, Russian troops threatened to reclaim the entire peninsula. A Soviet communiqué reported wholesale German surrenders on the Eastern Front...
...Poland he had to do more fighting than General Gerd von Rundstedt, but by losing far more men he went just as fast. In France, too, his central armies of Group B suffered relatively high casualties. In Russia he won Germany's greatest victories (Bialystok-Minsk, Smolensk, Bryansk-Vyazma) and suffered the greatest losses. Last week he was still sending men to glorious, spendthrift death...
...battles of encirclement at Bryansk and Vyazma, which preceded last week's fighting (TIME, Oct. 20), had taken a terrible toll. The German claim of eight armies of 67 infantry divisions, six cavalry and seven tank divisions, altogether 648,000 prisoners, was probably exaggerated at least twice over; but even so many of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's best were lost...