Word: wehrmacht
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...Russians are prepared to take full advantage of the Wehrmacht's difficulties: >From Smolensk, they now threaten the fat German bulge stretching out to Leningrad. If Vitebsk falls, the Baltic states would soon be in Russian hands. >From half a dozen points on the Dnieper, they can outflank most of the German strongholds on the Dnieper line. > From Melitopol and the Caucasus they will threaten the Crimea. > From the Crimea, if & when it falls, they will again dominate the Black Sea, and once again Germany's vassal states of Rumania and Bulgaria will be open to a direct...
...lava-scarred cone of Vesuvius. Beyond the volcano rose a huge shroud of smoke over the port of Naples. In that city of 900,000, rising in tourist times like a white amphitheater from the blue sea, the Germans were dynamiting and burning. It was clear proof that the Wehrmacht had lost the Battle of Salerno, had now begun an earth-scorching evacuation of southern Italy's greatest port...
...When it came, Churchill warned, it would be the "bloodiest portion of the war." When that time would be was the High Command's secret. Also a deep secret was its route. The shortest way is across France and the Low Countries, the same road over which the Wehrmacht poured...
After victory, from words and actions so far on the record: > Britain and the U.S. seem to plan occupation of Germany until they can be sure of a Germany without Nazis, without a Wehrmacht, without a munitions industry...
Peace without Calamity? From Moscow came news that four German generals and more than 100 other Wehrmacht officers, mostly captured at Stalingrad, had formed a German Officers' Union; that General of Artillery Walther von Seidlitz had been elected its president. Just as the Soviet Union Government had indirectly sponsored the parent. National Free Germany Committee and its manifesto proposing a democratic, capitalistic postwar Germany (TIME, Aug. 30), so the Soviet Union Government last week sponsored the Officers' Union and its declaration. That declaration, printed in Pravda and broadcast from Moscow, told Wehrmacht leaders, in effect, how they might...