Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Offensives. Pursuing the same strategy that carried them from Stalingrad to Kharkov last winter, the Russians had waited until the German drive on Kursk spent itself, then had launched a mighty counterattack. This quickly developed into a two-pronged offensive-actually two offensives - along a 300-mile front. One prong jabbed hard at the heels of the Germans routed at Orel, liberated hundreds of Russian villages and advanced toward Bryansk. Farther to the north, other Russian forces stabbed southwest from Vyazma toward the main Nazi base at Smolensk...
...Bone-Grinder. Orel was for the Germans, like Stalingrad, a Knochenmühle (bone-grinder). A Nazi war correspondent wired the Völkischer Beobachter: "Today's setting sun has seen more soldiers dying than soldiers sleeping. For every single minute during the entire day all of us, from the last private to the highest staff officer, have been conscious of the monstrous Russian superiority. Our battalions had to be spread out very thin to meet the Russian attacks everywhere. Last night we were forced to retreat hastily. .. . All we could take with us were a few artillery pieces...
...Canadian Army. This week Guy Simonds and his men, unopposed in the first days of the invasion, apparently were up against the remnants of the Germans' 15th Armored Division, which had retreated across Sicily and joined the Görings. The 29th (motorized) division, wiped out at Stalingrad and later recreated, backstopped both...
...Germans stuck to their assault tactics of last year: front-line bombing and heavy artillery preparation, followed by tank assaults and infantry. In defense, the Red Army also used familiar tactics, often letting the tanks through, then surrounding them and their suporting infantry. As at Stalingrad, the Russians had studded their front lines and rear with anti-tank strong points, ringed with mines, which caught the Nazi tanks in cross fire...
...trickery. But the fact was that German propagandists, like German militarists, were setting up their last and toughest line of defense. For the all-out battle which they expected, nothing less than the truth could serve as a weapon-for the German people had learned the truth at Stalingrad and in Tunisia...