Word: kharkov
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...will have to begin soon. South of Kharkov, Bock had plowed deep into the Russian lines. In Egypt the British faced Rommel with scanty forces and equipment; their loss at Tobruk (Axis version) was 33,000 prisoners, more than 100 tanks. In Rommel's sudden victory Germany could see the start of a great pincer operation...
...Germans had to make all possible preparations in advance of their great offensive. All along the 2,000-mile front, from Murmansk to the Sea of Azov, innumerable local chores of war have been done. The World has heard echoes of these preparatory struggles in the news from the Kharkov front last month, in the tidings of skirmishes and minor battles last week below Leningrad, on the Moscow front, in the Kalinin area near Smolensk west of the capital, below Kharkov where the Nazis advanced. Greatest of them all was the battle for Sevastopol, whose seizure was both a necessary...
...German armies, in their preparatory spring attacks, have already shown a few new tricks. Essence of these new tactics is to choose a very narrow sector, smash the selected area with a maximum concentration of planes (the Russians counted 1,000 on a 15-mile line below Kharkov), then strike with closely integrated formations of artillery, infantry and tanks. Full-strength Panzers have not attempted to dart through the enemy lines, swirl at will in the Russian rear. Instead, the Germans apparently keep their tanks in smaller groups, close to artillery and infantry. Thus, while the German pace...
...backs to the Mediterranean so often that both sides were becoming bored, he had never before finally and conclusively pushed them into it. And although the Soviet counter-offensive had frequently stalled and even receded momentarily, the German counter-counter-offensive has never threatened so important a key as Kharkov, capable of undoing a winter and spring of Russian blood. Nor did reverses on all fronts usually come at once; this time there is nothing that the coddling press can play up; this time the optimists have no "buts...
...distant future, but it was clear from yesterday's newsstands that we are not winning it now. The cold, undernourished, under-equipped, demoralized Germans are still a match for the Russians. They are strong enough to take Sevastopol; they may be strong enough to retake Kharkov and the gateway to the Caucasus and oil. While the Reds have stopped the strongest that Hitler has sent against them, the converse is also true...