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When, on the wrinkled steppe before Stalingrad, the Wehrmacht met defeat, Hitler did not turn for help to one of his Nazi henchmen-Jodl, List, Guderian; he turned to Junker von Manstein. In December 1942, in the marshlands hugging the Caspian Sea, Manstein met in combat the Russian ex-private, Rodion Malinovsky. Manstein's first punch-with massed tanks-sent the Russian reeling back. But soon Malinovsky received help, counterattacked, made the marshes a cemetery for Manstein's men, tanks, hopes...
...East before the war. When Hitler struck, Konev was in the vital Gomel sector, fighting stubbornly for each foot of the muddy terrain. In the battle for Moscow, he held the southern anchor of the defense line, soundly drubbed the renowned Nazi tankman, Colonel General Heinz Guderian. Marshal Zhukov once said of him: "Let Konev play his own game under his own rules, and no German will ever get the better of him." Said Konev to his officers: "Make up your mind what the enemy expects you to do and then do the opposite." Konev is a member...
Back in Russia he was given command of one of the seven armies that saved Moscow. There he saw what the Germans were capable of doing-but also what his own men could do. Golikov's army defeated two divisions of much-touted Heinz Guderian's Second Tank Army and took the towns of Mikhailov and Yepifan. This year he was promoted from army commander to commander of the Voronezh front. What he has done there, culminating last week in the cracking of the Germans' rigid southern line, suggests that he personally burns for total destruction...
Faith & Works. For this favorable situation, pious Nazis thanked their landlubber Führer, who had built ships when Goring was bawling for more airplanes and Guderian for more tanks. But they also thanked a short-legged pouter pigeon of a man named Erich Raeder...
Southwest of Moscow, where winter still lay white and heavy, Russian soldiers smashed hard at the German force ( 24,000 by Russian account) pocketed at Orel, devoutly hoped that the Germans' tank expert, Colonel General Heinz Guderian, was in truth penned up there...