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General Zakharov's army overran Volkovysk, a junction on the railroad to Bialystok. General Ivan Bagramian reached far to the west of Dvinsk (still in Wehrmacht hands last week), found himself about 100 miles from the Gulf of Riga...
...might be thought that the German armies were sick with the self-distilled poisons of a whole nation in travail, of a nation fed on doubt and defeatism, cramped by material and moral starvation. If that was so, why did the Wehrmacht seem so much sicker in Russia than in Italy and Normandy? Was it that the Russians had diagnosed the sick ness more accurately than the Western Allies, been more willing to take chances exploiting the German weakness...
Adolf's Warning. Hitler himself may have hinted at the dismissal a week earlier when he attended the state funeral of stanch Nazi General Eduard Dietl and delivered an oration which included a significant appeal and threat to other Wehrmacht commanders...
...that week, the Russians said, they killed or captured at least 183,000 German troops, and the enemy was losing 30,000 more every day. Some Red thrusts had maintained a pace of 20 to 24 miles a day -faster than the Wehrmacht in its blitziest days, against pushover opposition, had moved in Poland, France, Greece, Yugoslavia...
...first week of the great push, five major Nazi strongholds fell: after Vitebsk (which had withstood two fierce Red assaults in the past year), Orsha, Mogilev, Bobruisk, Zhlobin. Nothing like this, in so short a time, had ever happened to the Wehrmacht before...