Word: wehrmacht
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...simple-minded soldier of the sentimental maiden-for the second time in six months-swept beyond Kharkov driving the Wehrmacht before him. He had swept the Germans from Stalingrad 450 miles, nearly to the Dnieper, been set back to the Donets when his supply lines grew overextended, and now was back again, pushing toward Poltava and the Dnieper, with the smart Germans choking the roads and their single southwestward railroad in retreat...
...week toward the fruition of the great Red Army's war. From Ladoga to the U of the Dnieper, the front was aflame and moving. The Russian maiden's light burned bright. And Rokossovsky knew how to lead the maiden's soldier through Hell and the Wehrmacht...
...rearguard of the Wehrmacht fought stubbornly and well, strongly entrenched with machine guns and 88-mm. guns, sowing its path of retreat with mines and demolition charges. But the rearguard could not hold; it could only delay-in the north, the center and the east-the steady pressure of the British and Americans toward Messina...
...summer offensive of 1943 had not yet spent its strength. Last week, after a relentless, inch-by-inch, 24-day counterdrive, the powerful Red Army seized Orel and drove on. For nearly two years Orel had been a key bastion of Hitler's forces in Russia. Now the Wehrmacht's high command issued a terse communiqué: "In the course of a shortening of the front in the Orel bend, the evacuation of the city of Orel, which had been planned for quite some time was carried out, undisturbed by the enemy...
...Germans recognized the Red Army's ultimate objective when they abandoned Orel without committing their reserves. That grand objective is not the Ukraine, or even Berlin. It is the destruction of the Wehrmacht...