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...hoard lives. In Poland he had to do more fighting than General Gerd von Rundstedt, but by losing far more men he went just as fast. In France, too, his central armies of Group B suffered relatively high casualties. In Russia he won Germany's greatest victories (Bialystok-Minsk, Smolensk, Bryansk-Vyazma) and suffered the greatest losses. Last week he was still sending men to glorious, spendthrift death...
...Reds were apparently not tuckered out yet, because a force with enough power to counterattack must be moderately strong. After the Germans claimed 633,000 prisoners in the Minsk and Smolensk areas Marshal Semion Timoshenko was still able to counterattack and stabilize that front (see p. 27). But upon what happens when the Germans have emptied the kettle of Kiev and are ready again to pound the wedge depends the future of British-Russian cooperation on a common front (see p. 25) against that artist of Keil und Kessel, Adolf Hitler...
...center long enough to make him concentrate his strength there, then roll up the flanks, encircle the whole and annihilate. Though it seems almost too simple for such a devious commander, that is Adolf Hitler's strategy in Russia. He struck at the center, at Bialystok, Minsk, Smolensk, and won great victories which alarmed the Russians. He then went to work on the southern flank, the Ukraine (see below). Finally, last week, he concentrated on the northern flank, the Leningrad sector (see below). If he succeeded in turning both flanks he would then be ready to strike again...
During the first plunge forward there had been the great Battle of Bialystok-Minsk; during the second phase, the great Battle of Smolensk. Last week the great Battle of the Ukraine raged...
...Russians also, by their own account, were throwing fresh men and machines into the fight. The battles of Minsk and Smolensk had given the huge Soviet mass time to mobilize. The Russians began to talk of new and better materiel which they were now using...