Word: hedgehog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was still fight left in the Nazis. They concentrated their strength to hold a hedgehog near Jelgava (Mitau) and thus kept open a small exit for their troops from the northeast. Even after the capture of Jelgava by tankers of Lieut. General Viktor Obukov, the Germans stood their ground, backed up against the Gulf of Riga. Until the first of this week, an escape corridor was still open, with Nazis streaming through it to fight another...
...south, another powerful force captured the key rail center of Zhmerinka, fought its way into the famed hedgehog of Vinnitsa. By forced day-&-night marches, Zhukov's mobile units caught up with the fleeing Germans, crossed the upper Bug over bridges the Germans had had no time to blow...
...swamps and forests hugging Staraya Russa bodies rotted and weapons turned rusty. The town itself lay crushed beneath its stench of death. Here, for two and one half years, the Germans held on: to give up this powerful "hedgehog" was to unhinge the whole northern front...
...Krivoi Rog, where the Red Army was closing in on the last great Nazi hedgehog in the Dnieper loop...
...Manstein, retirement behind the Dnieper was inevitable. But he had to hold on until the Dnieper Line was ready, until his men had pulled out of the dangerous southern pocket. To achieve this he used hedgehogs-well-placed, well-fortified strongholds. The hedgehog at Stalino held until Manstein's units withdrew from the Don. The Poltava hedgehog held until the Germans reached the Dnieper...