Word: wehrmacht
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...real effect on the German war machine will not be felt for several weeks-until German reserves of equipment are depleted and replacements are progressively reduced. But when the process has gone far enough, it will strike like a paralyzing cramp in the muscles of the proud German Wehrmacht...
...tide now lapped at Festung Europa; it washed most heavily at Poland and Rumania. This week it was 50 mi. from Rumania's 1940 border, 275 mi. from frightened Bucharest, 200 mi. from Warsaw. Only 240 mi. away, Ploesti's oilfields-fueling pump of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe-tempted Russian bombers...
...Wehrmacht also felt the reverberations. Sadly Lieut. Adolph Kannel said to his Russian captors: "The clock of the German Army is now at five minutes to midnight. Soon the clock will strike...
...came to Russia. For five months the Germans moved with wondrous speed and dazzling power. Stubborn Voronov stuck to his artillery. There came a time when the Wehrmacht's great blitzkrieg machine stood at the gates of Leningrad, Stalingrad, the Caucasus. Voronov still stuck to his artillery...
...Russia. Voronov's cannon mauled many hundreds of the thick-skinned, monstrous "Tigers" (60-ton Mark VI tanks) and "Ferdinands" (70-ton self-propelled guns), crushed Hitler's hopes. At Leningrad, two months ago, Voronov's guns reduced to rubble one of the Wehrmacht's most powerful defense systems...