Word: kiev
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...Allied bombs to make Romans shudder. Persistent report had the Nazis systematically looting the capital's art treasures. Northbound trains were said to be bearing plunder to the castles and villas where Göring, Himmler and lesser German collectors had stored the loot of Warsaw, Paris and Kiev...
...German command was throwing fresh divisions into the battle: Hitler had ordered the Dnieper held at all costs. But the verdammte Bolschewis-ten-the damned Bolsheviks-had attacked earlier than expected, pierced the yet unready German defenses. Moscow reports spoke of Nazi troopers streaming out of sacked, blazing Kiev...
...which followed the loss of Smolensk, it has yielded only Kremenchug. At some points the front is still as much as 40 miles east of Hitler's defense wall. Yet the Russian pressure is immense. Early this week, most of the bastions of this line-Vitebsk, Mogilev, Gomel, Kiev, Melitopol-were in danger...
...battleground. The mud clutched at cannon and tank, swathed marching men's feet with a heavy, sticky cast, and blackend the battles' dead. But, from Velikie Luki down, nine army groups, including perhaps 27 armies, early this week pushed and plunged at the German Dnieper line - at Kiev and Melitopol, Zaporozhe and Dnepropetrovsk, Gomel and Cherkasi...
Already some Red units had crossed the river. Already Cossacks watered their horses on the lower Dnieper. Farther north, weary but exultant Red soldiers watched the gold-domed churches of Kiev, its roofs peeking through the branches of chestnut trees...