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...Master Race. It is a sadly beaten and demoralized army that leaves dead generals on the battlefield. East of Minsk, among 5,000 enemy dead,, the Russians found a corpse in a general's uniform...
Early one morning last week some 70 haggard German soldiers climbed out of a sand pit on the edge of Minsk's ancient Jewish cemetery, whose gravestones glared at them in silent reproach. The Red armies had overrun Minsk four days before, and were now rolling on far to the west, but the 70 Germans did not know that. They thought Minsk was still held by the Wehrmucht. When they started into the city, the Russian garrison mowed them down to the last...
This ill-fated detachment had been sent out to reconnoiter for 5,000 to 7,000 German troops, the remnants of several battered divisions which had been cut off in the woods east of Minsk. Their communications had been so completely severed that they no longer knew where the fighting front...
...British correspondents riding out of Minsk in jeeps saw mounted guerrillas with saddles made in Germany. Holland and Hungary...
...upper jaw of the Soviet crunch reached far behind Minsk and cut the railroad to Vilna; the lower jaw snapped the trunk line to Warsaw near Baranowicze. Minsk fell, trapping an estimated 150,000 more Germans. Swarms of Red bombers blasted the roads to Vilna and Koenigsberg, to Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk...