Word: panzers
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...Rommel moved along the three-lane coastal highway, British tanks, light artillery and motorized infantry drew abreast of his rear guard. They moved fast and stealthily. Near Wadi Matratin the British sliced in and cut off this Axis tail. Most of the isolated troops were part of a German Panzer division. Mussolini's warriors, left in the lurch at El Alamein, were in the forefront of this latest retreat and far along the coast. In a three-day-long battle some of the Germans succeeded in fighting their way through and tying themselves on again to the main columns...
Hitler took a liking to black-eyed, paunchy Kurt Zeitzler during the Polish campaign when the Führer reviewed one of Himmler's 55 regiments. Zeitzler quickly rose from colonel to general, served in Poland, the Balkans and the Caucasus as a Panzer staff officer and, despite his Gestapo connections, won the grudging respect of the Wehrmacht's Junkers...
...phase in the complicated, triangular Civil War that has alternately smoldered and flamed in Yugoslavia ever since the German invasion nearly two years ago. The Partisans had organized an army and a state; they were operating on a front 100 miles long and had already destroyed one Nazi Panzer column...
Inside the contracting area the battle became a melee. Distracted Axis troops faced in all directions at once. Panzer divisions dug in, using their tanks as pillboxes. Across the steppes galloped Cossacks in their black capes. Around gutted villages roared Russian tanks, swift motor-borne Siberian infantry...
...more likely explanation for the toll of prisoners was the swiftness of the Russian attack. Hitherto, Russian assaults have been battering operations carried out largely by pedestrian troops. For the first time in the war Timoshenko had mounted an agile, Panzer-type, fast-moving attack that encircled and overwhelmed. The Germans were apparently surprised as much by this as by the suddenness of the onslaught...