Word: rogachev
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Wehrmacht fought for Pskov with skill and fury: beyond it lay Estonia and Latvia, and then the Baltic, washing Germany's own shores. But not even Pskov's fate worried the Germans as much as the Russian threat to the Vitebsk-Rogachev line, and to Minsk, the kingpin of the German defense system in the north...
...threat developed overnight, and grew hourly. Behind it loomed the skilled hand of dynamic, canny Konstantin Rokossovsky-the man who destroyed the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad.* Inactive for two months, "Rok" last week hurled into battle a force estimated by Berlin at 100,000, captured Rogachev...
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