Word: kovell
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...they had known their defenses would collapse like a framework of overstrained girders at the touch of a cutting torch, why had they not pulled clear out of the Baltic countries and eastern Poland, to a shortened line from Konigsberg through Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk to Kovel...
...Germans announced that they had evacuated Kovel, that Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov's armies had advanced to the Bug River, between Kovel and Lublin, had thus penetrated "the Government General of Poland" (i.e., crossed the Russian-German, partition line of 1939). It was here, on the southern Polish plains, that the Germans had feared the heaviest Rus sian blows...
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