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When is Winter? On Dec. 10, after the second Moscow offensive, the Hamburg Fremdenblatt said that German winter quarters were being established on an arcing line, running roughly from Leningrad to Smolensk to Orel to Kharkov to Odessa, in an area embracing excellent north-south rail communications. Subsequent German dispatches termed it "a loose network of strong points-an elastic winter line." By last week the winter-quarters alibi was wearing thin. The Germans would have to hump if winter quarters were to be established before warm weather...
...early to assess the action. Perhaps the Germans were withdrawing to a line, well-prepared in their rear, stretching perhaps from the Valdai hills in the north to the vicinity of Kharkov in the Ukraine. Here they might rest through the frightening winter cold while the war went on in other countries. So Ludendorff in 1917 had withdrawn from a vast energy-consuming salient, prepared lines in his rear, come back with a climactic German effort in the spring of 1918. But at the very least this was a Russian success, for the German retreat was costly...
LONDON--Russian troops have recaptured 200 villages in the Rostov area, thrown the Germans back six miles west from Tagaurog and opened a thundering artillery barrage near Kharkov in a general southern front offensive that may compel the Germans to release their tightening grip on Moscow and send help there, Russian dispatches reported today...
British observers believed that Marshal Semyon Timoshenko was about to attempt to recapture the great industrial city of Kharkov from the Germans. The left bank of the lower Don and the Donets Basin was reported ablaze with Russian artillery fire...
This was heartbreaking work. But the Russians knew that in the six weeks since Adolf Hitler had boasted that Russia was beaten, the Germans had taken only Kharkov and part of the Crimea...