Word: chler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swamps; then crossed the Volkhov River over shattered ice and the flotsam & jetsam of a bridge the Germans blew up. Moscow's claim: 15,000 Germans killed, 3,000 captured. Last week the armies of Meretzkov and Govorov threatened to make mincemeat of Marshal von Küchler's battered forces...
...Vitebsk-Mogilev line (see map, p, 27). The great German stronghold of Vitebsk was engulfed. Orsha was in danger. And at any hour, the four huge Red Armies idling in the north might roll west, crush the thinly spread forces of Field Marshals von Kluge" and von Küchler, pour into old Poland, the Baltic States...
...Army (all of whom swept into Belgium on the night of Germany's invasion of the Low Countries) were pocketed together with the remainder of the Belgian Army-500,000 French, 200,000 British, 400,000 Belgians and a few thousand Dutch. The German Army of Küchler had driven them back from the Albert Canal. The German Army of Reichenau had pounded through the Ardennes Forest and across the Meuse (see map). At Neufchâteau and Sedan the French IX Army (under incapable General André Corap) had been cracked, crushed, scattered...
...havoc with Allied communications along the seacoast. Behind them German infantry and artillery divisions dropped off to strengthen the sides of the corridor. Already Reichenau (who was at the centre in Poland and performed the final closing of the bloody envelopment of Kutno) was driving on Lille. Küchler (who commanded the German left in the Polish massacre) was pressing through Ghent...
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