Word: schwedler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after 17 days the dogged push began to slow up. The Germans had retreated slowly to the line of their stoutest defenses, then held. And while the Germans stood the battering, they flung reserves into action. Under 57-year-old Lieut. General Viktor von Schwedler, they knifed savagely into the Russians below Kharkov in the Barvenkovo-Izyum area. The Russians, admitting that it was a surprise attack, braced to meet it. The Germans were stopped. Once again the Russian defense proved itself...
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