Word: wehrmacht
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...Pomeranian and Silesian flanks before they move on Berlin. If Berlin is lost before the western Allies move, the Nazis will still hold the Ruhr. When that is gone, they will still have the industries of central and southern Germany, Austria, Bohemia to nourish a diminished, compact and desperate Wehrmacht for a while longer...
...Hermann Balck had hastily committed his best units to action in order to keep the German High Command from taking them away. Balck had two or more Panzer or Panzer grenadier divisions, one of mountain troops from Norway, one of SS infantry, one of paratroops-a parcel of the Wehrmacht's best...
...doubtless planned much of the offensive's detail-he is one of the Red Army's most brilliant strategists. Stalin has fullest confidence in him. Zhukov had been his chief of staff, in charge of Moscow's defense, during the first awful months of the Wehrmacht's invasion. He had been the shaper and adviser of the Stalingrad counteroffensive, engineer of the Red Army's sweep through the Ukraine...
...European strategical picture this was important fighting. It had tied down probably 27 Wehrmacht divisions which might otherwise have strengthened Rundstedt's attack in Belgium. Now it had even forced the Germans to bring in another division from Norway. But to the average soldier it remained the toughest, least rewarding campaign. Allied troops on the western front, Russian troops on the eastern front, could see the possibility of winning a decision. In Italy the troops knew only that, unless the victory was won elsewhere first, after the Apennines would come the Alps...
...Salient. Last week Patton's wedge was only 13 miles from the First Army dents in the north. The German position was something like that in the Falaise-Argentan pincers of last summer. Could the Germans get out? It was well to remember that last summer, when the Wehrmacht was less ably commanded than it is now, the Germans who had seemed hopelessly bottled in the Falaise trap were able to extricate five divisions of armor almost intact. If Rundstedt was content with the delay and damage already wrought against his foes in the west, he might be able...