Word: grodno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bleak Province. Probably the most conservative general would have agreed with Hitler that Germany must defend East Prussia, the bleak province which is supposed to breed the "iron bowels" of the Junkers. On the sector covering East Prussia, from Kaunas to Grodno, the Russians paused for a whole week. The natural defenses before them-swamps, lakes and dense forests-were forbidding. The man-made defenses, particularly the strategic network of railways built long ago, were equally formidable. In this treacherous country, the Tsarist armies of World War I suffered their first great defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg...
First to the Sea? In front of East Prussia and of Warsaw to the south, the Germans had four main bastions: Kaunas and Grodno on the Niemen River, Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk. Brilliant young General Ivan Chernyakovsky reached the Niemen on a 75-mile front, forced several crossings, established bridgeheads on the west bank, attacked Grodno. Early this week his army was joined there by that of General Georg Zakharov, and Grodno fell...