Word: carpathians
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...Carpathian wall is to halt the Russians, it will likewise divide the south ern German front into two distinct sectors, just as the Pripet Marshes divide it farther north. In this case the Germans will have two new fronts to defend...
...point the first wave of the Russian tide washed to the foot of the Carpathian wall. Out on the flats of the Ukraine other waves began to lap at Odessa...
Marshal Zhukov's army, on the Ukrainian right flank, was the first to reach the foothills of the Carpathians. Behind it burning villages still dotted the plain of Bukovina, which it had crossed after cap turing Cernauti. And above it stood two famed Carpathian passes which Russian armies in one bitter winter of World War I fought to attain, but never succeeded in gaining...
Here, as at the northern passes, opportunity also knocks, for the Germans have as yet had little time to organize. If the Russians drive southward along the eastern wall of the Carpathians, the Ploesti oilfields, one-third of Hitler's oil supply, can be taken, Bucharest and the German frontage on the Black Sea could be liquidated. If the drive continued successfully the Russians could fight their way west, where the Carpathians curve back, to reach the easiest of the Carpathian passes, facing north from the valley of the muddy Danube...
...incredible that apart from a few traitors there could be someone who would interfere in this magnificent liberation struggle of our people . . . which . . . will be closely linked with the operations of our Allies in the Balkans, in Italy, on the Carpathian battlefields and in the Danubian valley...