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...rumors that he had been putting together all day. The war was going none too well. In the center, yes, Timoshenko was sharply counterattacking, the Germans were falling back. But in the north Voroshilov might soon be trapped in Leningrad. And in the south Budenny's defense of Kiev and Odessa was gravely threatened by new German eruptions east of the Dnieper. Aside from possibilities of more immediate catastrophes, if the Germans could hole up in these great Russian cities before winter, they might prepare crushing flank movements for the spring...
Brilliant Nazi Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt had smashed across the Dnieper at two points. He drove southward from the Gomel sector and took Chernigov, 80 miles to the northeast of the Ukraine's capital, Kiev, whence he was in excellent position to get in Kiev's rear, and complete its encirclement (see map). Even more dangerous to Russian hopes was his capture of Kremenchug, 160 miles to Kiev's southeast. From there he could launch a north eastward drive on 150-mile-distant Kharkov, the Ukraine's big railroad junction and industrial center, threaten...
...between the Bug and Dnieper Rivers, then swinging south to encircle the Russians at the Black Sea ports. Frontally the German gains eastward were out of all linear proportion to the great flanking sweeps which made the gains possible. A great break-through near Uman, 120 miles south of Kiev, paved the way for the final dash south to the Black Sea. By week's end the Germans claimed to have rolled across the Krivoi Rog iron-ore area, which had supplied 59% of Russia's raw iron, and to have reached the sea east of Odessa...
...said that after the attack on Russia had reached the Urals (and the Germans had captured Leningrad, Moscow, Kiev and other great Russian centers) the Nazis would be willing to dicker for peace on the following basis...
Early this week that outcome may have been foreshadowed by the German High Command-vastly more reliable than the official Nazi D.N.B. news agency-which claimed that the chief Russian forces in the center around Smolensk had been "destroyed." Russia admitted that a powerful German pincer thrust toward Kiev had reached Belaya Tserkov, 60 miles southwest of the city...