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Until recently Colonel General von Kleist held back ten armored divisions, probably in the Minsk-Brest-Litovsk area; by now he has probably had to throw them against the Russian avalanche. In France, in addition to the 30-odd coastal-defense divisions, twelve divisions stand in the rear, supposedly between Amiens and Sedan, waiting to counterattack Allied forces landing in the west. These forces are formidable but they are not true reserves: they cannot be readily spared for duty elsewhere...
...shall never forget the British," he says. "Shaving in the darkest days, pipes perpetually between their teeth, they never moved faster than a walk whether in advance or retreat." In this war he won the Order of Lenin for helping to defeat Colonel General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist during the Red counteroffensive of 1941. Last December he smashed Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein's powerful effort to relieve the Germans at Stalingrad...
...Caucasus foothills General Siegmund Wilhelm Walther List, veteran mountain campaigner in Norway, Yugoslavia and Greece, was massing a fresh German tank army. List's predecessor as Caucasus commander, General Paul Ludwig von Kleist, had driven his tanks within 50 miles of the Grozny oilfields before he was slain by the Russians (TIME, Sept. 28). List edged the lines a little closer. He hoped to take his first Caucasus prize intact. Though within easy range, List withheld his bombers from Grozny's oil wells and refineries...
...Russians announced that in the Caucasus they had killed Colonel General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, commander of the First German Tank Army. Berlin, however, denied he had fallen. Prussian von Kleist led the first armored forces into Belgrade in April 1941, spearheaded drives into Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk, commanded tanks which first captured Rostov last November, only to lose it a few weeks later. This year his Panzers again had rolled into Rostov and then far beyond to the south...
Whatever the apologists and the gloaters might say, Rostov was important, both immediately and in the long run. It remained to be seen how far Paul von Kleist would be driven, how many men he would lose, and whether his name would remain proud...