Word: wehrmacht
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...This attack need not be the only one-or the main one-planned by the Germans this summer. If it is, the world will know that the Wehrmacht, resigned to the defensive in Russia, is merely trying to improve its own positions and weaken the Red Army before winter or before Russia strikes with the U.S. and Britain...
...Wehrmacht attacked all the way from Orel to Belgorod, on a front of 200 miles, in areas where both armies had been concentrating troops for weeks...
...Large forces of German armor and aircraft, hitherto sure signs that the Wehrmacht means business, had gone into action. The Russians said they destroyed or damaged 586 German tanks and 203 German planes the first...
...real facts are that . . . 211 German divisions are now on the Germans' Soviet front and no withdrawals from that front are taking place." For the rest of Europe, said Pravda, the Wehrmacht has only 91 divisions, including not more than 20 in Germany and Austria, 35 in France, Belgium and The Netherlands...
...pressure was put on from Berlin. She had chrome to offer the U.S. and Britain when they put the heat on (the U.S. is now receiving all the chrome that Germany is not). She could insist, and rightly, that her neutrality was protecting Britain's flank when the Wehrmacht reached the eastern Mediterranean. To Germany, if Hitler tried invasion, she could offer the prospect of stiff resistance in rugged country, almost devoid of communications. She has trumps of war today for the Allies: some 1,500,000 men whose fighting qualities are superb, despite their lack of mechanized training...