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Reassured, the Wehrmacht pulled some troops out of Kiev, rushed them south to help hold Krivoi Rog. Only then did peasant-faced, tank-wise Vatutin (by now, for unannounced reasons, in full command) give the order to attack. His veteran troopers stood on the heights before Kiev and wept with anger and sorrow at the sight of flames eating through the city. Then, with fury in their hearts, they swept down upon...
...greatest victory in Russia was the victory of Moscow (see p. 18). Already retreating on the fighting front, Adolf Hitler and the Wehrmacht lost their last hope of salvage through Allied discord, their last chance that the Red Army might forgo the complete defeat of the German armies in the east...
...Punch. The Wehrmacht still fought with skill and fury but it could not deny victory to the Russians. What it desperately sought now was to survive as an army, establish yet another line of defense, prevent the infection of defeat from spreading northward. It remained a powerful fighting organism. But there were signs of decay. Behind the Russian lines straggled mobs of dejected prisoners. Except at a few picked points, the German defense in the south was confused and ill-directed...
...Berlin, the Wehrmacht's spokesman addressed the correspondents: "I am sorry I have to announce a Russian breakthrough on the German front...
When the Red Army launched its offensives against Kiev and Melitopol in September, the Wehrmacht rushed precious reserves of men and tanks to these points over strained and inadequate railroads and highways. The Russians saw their opportunity, struck between the two cities at the soft top of the Dnieper bulge (see map), won a small bridgehead below Kremenchug...