Word: bryansk
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...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...
...last intact Russian Armies, those of Marshal Semion Timoshenko, were trapped in two encirclements at Bryansk and Vyazma (see map), and faced inescapable annihilation...
Kalinin, 100 miles northwest of Moscow, was mentioned for the first time in a Russian communique. It said fighting was especially fierce in that and in the Vyazma and Bryansk sectors, a tacit admission that Moscow was now half encircled, with the Germans battering their way along four main approaches...
...Germans continue to be annihilated at the present rate, they will be driven as far west as Smolensk by the spring thaw. Compared with Russia's gains in the past month, this is a considerable distance. But in terms of Germany's lightning drives from Smolensk to Bryansk and from Bryansk to the outskirts of Moscow, it is relatively small for the time spent. Yet the wishful thinking of the press has given birth to a widespread notion that the counter-attack is a large-scale rout, although any amateur pin-pusher can discover that the Soviets are doing...