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First flaw came with the storming of areas where hard cores of prepared Russian resistance ruled out tanks as a major offensive weapon. Odessa fell only after a fierce, brutal fight; Leningrad, encircled, has withstood over four months of siege; Moscow threw back three gigantic offensives...
When is Winter? On Dec. 10, after the second Moscow offensive, the Hamburg Fremdenblatt said that German winter quarters were being established on an arcing line, running roughly from Leningrad to Smolensk to Orel to Kharkov to Odessa, in an area embracing excellent north-south rail communications. Subsequent German dispatches termed it "a loose network of strong points-an elastic winter line." By last week the winter-quarters alibi was wearing thin. The Germans would have to hump if winter quarters were to be established before warm weather...
...parts: the Ukraine and Ostland (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, White Russia). Doktor Rosenberg enraged many Ukrainian nationalists, who for years had hoped for Ukrainian independence, or a Reich Protectorate, by handing two big chunks of the Ukraine to others-Eastern Galicia to the Government of Occupied Poland, the great seaport Odessa to Rumania...
...Odessa has miles-long catacombs, dug in the 19th Century to get sandstone for the city's construction. From these caves Russian suicide squads were still reported operating. They were said to come out at night, creep from house to house, find enemy rendezvous, blow them up. Fortnight ago the Rumanian general in charge of the city was blown up with his staff. The Rumanians vainly tried to fumigate the catacombs, have now posted machine guns at the vaults' entrances. Wrote one correspondent: "The whole atmosphere is one of lurking danger and stealthy death, such...
After 59 days of continuous siege, Adolf Hitler's headquarters announced last week that Ion Antonescu's Army, with German and Rumanian planes inflicting heavy losses on evacuating vessels in the harbor, had crushed Odessa's last defenses, found last-ditch defenders behind street barricades made out of their own dead. Women and children fought side by side with...