Word: rostov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victories are imminent after the fall of Rostov and Voroshilovgrad. The Red Army is already far west of the line between these two cities. In its irresistible sustained drive it has encircled large parts of Hitler's Army.-Moscow Radio...
Success in Fire. As a climax to a week of climaxes, Rostov, the southern anchor of the whole German line and a bitterly defended place, burst into flames and fell to the attackers. Thus the Germans lost the one sure foothold for an attack in the Caucasus in the spring. Rostov's loss was the clearest indication yet that there might not be another German offensive in Russia, since any offensive would have to start all over again on a program which had once failed...
Elastic defense can be masterful, as Rommel's retreat to Tunisia was, or merely chaotic. The Russians had two chances of making it chaotic-they could drive south through Stalin to the Sea of Azov, pocketing the routed defenders of Rostov, and west from Lozovaya to the Dnieper bend at Dniepropetrovsk, cutting the Caucasian remnant and Crimean garrisons off from convenient retreat by rail or good roads...
...Field Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm Walther List into a narrow strip along the Black Sea and Sea of Azov north of Novorossiisk. At week's end the Russians said that, by taking Yeisk on the Sea of Azov, they had closed the Germans' last channels of escape via Rostov. There were reports of the Red Fleet's harrying boatloads of Germans fleeing across the narrow (3 mi.) Kerch Straits to the Axis-held Crimea. The most the Nazis could hope for was a Dunkirk, but it seemed more likely that they would suffer another Stalingrad...
...Germans in and around Rostov, the gateway to the Caucasus, up to this week had offered about as little resistance as the Russians did to the Germans last summer. Soviet tanks, artillery and infantry breached the defenses on Rostov's south and southeast perimeter. Cavalry under Colonel General Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko swept into Bataisk, only twelve miles south of the city. The Russians then announced that they had advanced to the left bank of the Don, and had begun to shell the Germans in the city itself...