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...obvious fact was that the German Panzer divisions, although they had sliced through the Russian lines in a dozen places, had divided but not crushed the Russian Army before Moscow. They bit off hunks, but the vast Russian hunks were too large to swallow without chewing. The chewing job had to be done by the German infantry that followed the Panzers...
Meantime it was hard to tell whether the German Panzer divisions that had pierced the Russian lines had cut off Russian Armies or been cut off by them. It was a strange battle, fought not with the opposing armies lined up facing each other like two football teams, but with sizable units of both armies mixing it up in all directions like players on a basketball court...
Last week the Germans announced that Panzer forces under General Rudolf Schmidt had in the course of fighting the Fourteenth Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the Fourteenth Soviet Mechanized Division, captured Jacob, son of Joseph Stalin. They were very proud of the feat, and issued pictures of the wonderful heir. But all they had was a boy with a hangdog look, who was never much...
...there was an over-all explanation of why the first German push came to a halt. After a drive of 355 miles, any Army inevitably gets its communications tangled, has to straighten them out and bring up fresh supplies. Moreover the German attack, although led by Panzer spearheads, had to be followed by infantry to mop up and take possession. Marching at even such a rapid rate as the Nazis claimed the infantry obviously could not keep up with the tanks...
That was satisfactory progress-even Panzer divisions cannot cover more than a few hundred miles in a fortnight-but the battle of Russia was on such a vast scale that it still had not been won. It was simply going as well as could be expected...