Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parching heat of the Ukrainian summer neared its end, and the air was laden with the promise of rain. Soon downpours would convert the fat, black soil into paste...
...great in some sectors that the Germans abandoned much heavy equipment in the flight. Some mobile units raced to within 16 miles of Kharkov, one encircled several Nazi garrisons. A powerful secondary drive starting from Chuguev, 25 miles southeast of Kharkov, threatened a new pincers squeeze on the Ukrainian stronghold...
Berlin reported the Russians massing troops for major operations in three strategic sectors: 1) south of Leningrad; 2) south of Moscow; 3) in the Kuban. No matter what the Russians did, Hitler would have to strike hard and soon in the south to secure the diminished, but still vast, Ukrainian grain crop so badly needed in Europe. With perhaps 500 divisions en gaged on both sides of the front, it might well be the biggest battle in history...
...Russians destroyed 67,000 tractors, 18,500 heavy trucks, 22,000 combines before they gave up the Ukraine. One result was that Ukrainian farmlands produced very little for the Germans. They were able to bring in about 5,000 tractors, a few thousand plows. By forcing prisoners and peasants to work the fields 17 hours a day, the Germans were able to plant and harvest about 300,000 tons of grain in 1942 (in 1937, the Ukraine produced 10,000,000 tons of wheat alone...
Life under the Heel. Planning eventually to incorporate the Ukraine into the Greater Reich, the Germans fostered schools for Ukrainians, with special emphasis on technical training. Many Ukrainian teachers, unable to retreat when the Nazis came, taught in these schools. Movie theaters were open in most cities. Artists in cities like Odessa and Kiev were permitted to exhibit non-political works. Plays ridiculing the Soviet regime were occasionally produced under German auspices...