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July had seen Field Marshal Fedor von Bock set in motion his great 1942 offensive for the conquest of all southern Russia and a mortal blow at the Red army. By early August, advancing with seven-league strides, he was within sight of his first objective...
Mass v. Depth. Last week the Germans widened and joined the preliminary offensives which they had launched from Kharkov and Kursk (TIME, July 6). The struggles along the whole southern front thus became one battle, but it was fought in many separated sectors. In each Field Marshal Fedor von Bock faithfully followed the battle plan which the Nazis had devised to break up the Red Army's famed defense-in-depth: closely meshed, overpowering combinations of planes, tanks, artillery and infantry. Strong and deep though the Russian defenses were, the Nazi forces at the points of contact were even...
...Near Kharkov, 400 miles to the north, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock's tight teams of planes, tanks, guns and men punched a dent, then tried to hack a great pocket in Marshal Semion Timoshenko's defenses. Eventually, if the Nazi plan worked, the pocket would become an ever-enlarging fissure...
Since Marshal Timoshenko's old opponent, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, had the advantage of opening the attack, it meant little that the Russians were outnumbered at first. What did loom darkly were the successive indications of the Moscow dispatches: first the censors allowed a guess that Bock was testing Timoshenko's "remaining manpower," then a reference to advancing Nazi forces, finally the outright statement from Moscow that the Germans had the advantage in numbers of men, tanks, planes. Thus Berlin, was probably telling the truth in a communique claiming the recapture of a, bridgehead between the Donets...
...maintaining a double offensive against Moscow and the Caucasus. More recently, since the failure of his Russian designs, Hitler had proposed a turnabout invasion of Britain. This had been opposed by all his top commanders, all proud veterans of Germany's aristocratic military caste-Field Marshals von Brauchitsch, Fedor von Bock, Ritter Wilhelm von Leeb, Gerd von Rundstedt. They had now been dismissed or had "resigned" or were "gravely ill." The self-proclaimed Oberste Befehlshaber was left to carry on with the support of such latecomers to the military aristocracy as Chief of Operations General Alfred Jodl, Inspector General...