Word: dnieper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British strategists today are deep in a guessing game. Was the Wehrmacht's retreat in Russia a rout or a planned withdrawal? Will Hitler make a stand on the Dnieper Line? (A Swedish daily quoted him: "Here I am and here I shall remain.") If this line falls, where will the Wehrmacht stand next...
Already some Red units had crossed the river. Already Cossacks watered their horses on the lower Dnieper. Farther north, weary but exultant Red soldiers watched the gold-domed churches of Kiev, its roofs peeking through the branches of chestnut trees...
Hitler's Perils. The battle for the Dnieper had its origins in the woods and valleys of the Belgorod-Kursk sector where, in the first fortnight of July, Hitler's vast offensive drowned in its own blood. When this defeat was coupled with the Allied moves in the Mediterranean. Hitler knew he had to shorten his Eastern front and hoard his reserves of men and guns...
...Russians are prepared to take full advantage of the Wehrmacht's difficulties: >From Smolensk, they now threaten the fat German bulge stretching out to Leningrad. If Vitebsk falls, the Baltic states would soon be in Russian hands. >From half a dozen points on the Dnieper, they can outflank most of the German strongholds on the Dnieper line. > From Melitopol and the Caucasus they will threaten the Crimea. > From the Crimea, if & when it falls, they will again dominate the Black Sea, and once again Germany's vassal states of Rumania and Bulgaria will be open to a direct...
...Army surged to the Dnieper, the fears of the summer grew to certainties: Finland had blundered again. No longer could Banker-President Risto Ryti and his Cabinet tell each other that Russia would so weaken herself against the Wehrmacht that she would have to listen to Finnish demands for the old frontiers, plus a good slice of Soviet Karelia. No longer could the men who run Finland ignore the pointed hints from London and Washington that Finland would have to find...