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...Caucasus the story was the same. Two swift Russian smashes wedged some 200,000 Germans under 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...
...Namely: Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, recently put over all France, 66; Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, Prussian who helped conquer Poland, Paris, the North Caucasus, 61; Field Marshal Siegmund List, who led the Balkan campaign, 62; Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, who commands the northern front in Russia...
...Caucasus foothills General Siegmund Wilhelm Walther List, veteran mountain campaigner in Norway, Yugoslavia and Greece, was massing a fresh German tank army. List's predecessor as Caucasus commander, General Paul Ludwig von Kleist, had driven his tanks within 50 miles of the Grozny oilfields before he was slain by the Russians (TIME, Sept. 28). List edged the lines a little closer. He hoped to take his first Caucasus prize intact. Though within easy range, List withheld his bombers from Grozny's oil wells and refineries...
Should the Caucasus battle develop this winter, it is likely to be a personal-leader struggle between German General Siegmund List and Russian General Melnik. Melnik conducted the guerrilla offensive all last winter behind the German lines. He is more of a flat-terrain soldier than a mountaineer, but the essentials of the battle for the Caucasus will be fought in the approaches and. because the Germans will not be able to move much in winter, this tough Soviet Cossack will probably harass the Germans more than the actual battle will...
Leeb is the most consciously aristocratic, the most austere. Because he wrote a Chronicle of the Leeb Family, he has been called the Family-Tree General. His friend Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm List, who commanded the Balkan campaign, once said: "If Leeb ever tried to smile, it would crack his face." His coldness has deprived him of friends, but he is respected as an upright professional soldier. He lost a son in Poland...