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Line or No Line? Fortnight ago a Russian communique denied that a Stalin Line "ever existed, or exists." In the sense of a continuous line, like the Maginot, none existed. But in the Smolensk area, blocking the traditional military highroad to Moscow-between the Dnieper and Dvina Rivers-the Russians had translated PU-36 into concrete and steel terms...
...Battle of the Ukraine was a gigantic flanking operation with the Germans going deep into the stretch between the Bug and Dnieper Rivers, then swinging south to encircle the Russians at the Black Sea ports. Frontally the German gains eastward were out of all linear proportion to the great flanking sweeps which made the gains possible. A great break-through near Uman, 120 miles south of Kiev, paved the way for the final dash south to the Black Sea. By week's end the Germans claimed to have rolled across the Krivoi Rog iron-ore area, which had supplied...
...Germans claimed. They would have to stand and fight, or tumble, Dunkirk-wise, into the Black Sea. According to Moscow, the Germans spoke too soon. The greater part of the Red Army of the Ukraine had made an orderly retreat, were outside the sack, were crossing the Dnieper to take up new positions...
Cleaning up the Ukraine is no afternoon tea party. It comprises an area bigger than Italy, and about one-sixth of Russia's peoples live there. But Adolf Hitler must have it, must grasp its steelworks, its great Dnieper dam, its rich black dirt which pushes up abundance and covers coal and iron...
Last week his Ukraine strategy became apparent. It was his aim to encircle the Russian defenders and contain them in the great geographical sack defined by the Dniester and Dnieper Rivers and the Black Sea; there to cut them up. Wrote authoritative Dienstaus Deutschland of this ambitious undertaking: "The size of the encircled area or the time required to liquidate it is not important. What counts is that the enemy is grabbed; he can't retreat and he is destroyed...