Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ammunition from the air when, in fluctuating street-to-street fighting, the material was more likely than not to fall into German hands? Probing the Bag. A Red Army spokesman said that Warsaw was one of those places "which have to be captured from all sides." Last week Marshal Rokossovsky's army group gained ground north of the city, in attacks toward the Warsaw-Bialystok railroad. Some 100 miles to the south, in sweltering hot weather, Marshal Konev fought off repeated German tank and infantry attacks, developed a huge salient across the Vistula, from which a northward drive toward...
...embodied their great tradition and their desperate dilemma was the man who indicted Yorck von Wartenburg and his seven gallows-mates for treason against the Third Reich and conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler-Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt...
...Rundstedt send Field Marshal von Witzleben, Colonel General Erich Hoepner, Major General Helmuth Stieff, Count Yorck von Wartenburg and the others to the gallows because he had no choice? Did he hope to shield other Wehrmacht generals by acting as the grand inquisitor? When known, the answers to these questions will form an interesting page of history. But they do not alter the fact that the Junker and the Nazis are both very close to the end of their respective ropes. Nor the fact that Germany is now a land divided against itself - although still held together by the frame...
...This week Seydlitz' former commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, silent since his capture at Stalingrad, declared: "The war is lost for Germany. . . . Because of the state and military leadership of Hitler ... the war has been transformed into a senseless bloodshed...
Range of Destruction. Ike Eisenhower had moved to France and become a field commander again in order to be in at the kill. His tank-infantry teams, swinging in from behind, had brought Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's Seventh Army (20 to 40 divisions of the Reich's best troops) into range of destruction...