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TIME cover jinx still seems to be working. Latest casualties: Husband Kimmel, Fedor von Bock...
...offensive begun on Oct. 2 had cracked them wide open. On Oct. 15 and 16 they had considered the capital lost. Then came the organization of fresh reserves and civilian defenders, the temporary stabilization of the front 50 miles from Moscow in mid-November. On Nov. 16 Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, indifferent to the cost-in-blood (TIME, Dec. 8), flung his armored divisions against Moscow for a second time. He succeeded in driving two long battle tracks into the country about Moscow, as if to pinch it off from the rear...
...days later a military spokesman in Berlin announced that the German Army does not expect to capture Moscow this year. Either Germany was gathering strength for an offensive somewhere else, or the spectre of the wholesale amputation of frozen arms & legs was too much even for hard-bitten Marshal Fedor von Bock...
...Fedor von Bock's cosmos, the Fatherland remained constantly deathworthy; the Emperor was interchangeable with, successively, Weimar Republicanism, Hindenburg, the Führer. He was completely unpolitical: he never plotted, was never purged...
...Fedor von Bock worked his way up, he won more & more respect-both for his fanaticism and for his thoroughness. Soon his fanaticism spread in the Army, until every unit had a handful of "Bock's own dying heroes...