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Word: welirmacht (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turned the German Carpathian line. ¶Snatched from hungry German fingers the rich Bessarabian grain harvest, threatened to snatch the whole Rumanian breadbasket as well as the oil wells that supply one-third of the Wehrmacht's fuel. ¶Deprived the Welirmacht of some 300,000 Rumanian soldiers. Most of the fight had gone out of these troops (except in Transylvania, where they took up an old feud against the Hungarians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Blitz in Bessarabia | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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