Word: wehrmacht
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Russia. The Red Army blunted the Wehrmacht's most serious counter-threat: its strong wedge in the Kiev sector...
...obscured campaign came a clear description of Wehrmacht defenses, along the Monte Samucre sector of the Fifth Army front. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart...
Russia. Mud and the Wehrmacht held the Russians...
...hold a million men at bay, more was needed than the elements. A strong factor in the stalemate was the stubborn and skilled German resistance. Last week, Moscow's press found it necessary to warn exuberant optimists that the Wehrmacht was still a tremendously powerful force. It still held a sizable portion of the lower Dnieper's right bank. It was still able-and willing-to throw fresh men and tanks into the battle to hold or gain an important point...
...Wehrmacht has burned down forests where guerrillas lurked. It has razed villages, killed or imprisoned thousands of suspects, created special antiguerilla forces (in one case 60.000 strong), offered big rewards (for the head of Guerrilla Chief Mikhail Romashkin: 15,000 rubles, a house, 32 acres of land, two cows, a horse). But the hour came when the Wehrmacht's mouthpiece, Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar, had to make an admission: "The struggle with the partisans has become a complex problem, which cannot be solved by small means...