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Retreat to the Reich? Moscow said that the Germans were rushing up reserves and new equipment to stop the Russians. Berlin talked of "elastic German defenses leading to further withdrawals." Perhaps the Germans were withdrawing under duress. Perhaps the Russians were pursuing more than attacking but wanted to make their gains loom as large as possible. Perhaps the Germans' "further withdrawals" may eventually take them out of Russia. If so, these circumstances explained in part the speed of the Red Army's offensive...
...protecting that key city and the northern approaches to Rostov. Of these objectives, the greatest gain for the Russians and the greatest loss to the Germans would be Kharkov, fulcrum of the entire Axis line lying between the Red armies in the south and the outer defenses of the Reich itself. Second in importance was Rostov-a vital gate to the Caucasus and the Crimea and a point which the Germans seized and lost once before...
High over the capital of the Reich droned planes of the R.A.F. Swift, light Mosquito bombers, in the first daytime raid on Berlin, were dodging ack-ack, fighting off the few fighters of the astonished Luftwaffe and raining 500-lb. bombs on a now noisy and exploding city...
...Naziism's tenth birthday, a day for celebration. In the Hall of Honor at Berlin's Air Ministry building, which had been decorated with flowers for the occasion, meaty, perspiring Reich Marshal Hermann Göring scowled at the pages of his carefully prepared speech. In the hall his comrades in arms stood waiting. Across the Reich, the silent people of Germany also waited. In a moment the Marshal would step to the microphone...
...year ago the famous anthropologist's plan for the creation of a new synthetic German race from foreign elements, to replace the natural inhabitants of the Reich whom he proposed to scatter after obliterating their state, was denounced by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, as untenable...