Scorched Earth (The Third Reich)
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN: 0809470292
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Book by Time-Life Books
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Soviets; the XVII Corps, 9,284 — — men men facing an facing 49,500; the IV 13,143 men facing 18,000. In armament, guns of the Sixth Army confronted 165 Soviet tanks. Manstein then summed it up for Hitler. "With our available forces, the Donets region cannot be defended, my Fiihrer. Either you let us have fresh forces, and that means twelve divisions, or the Donets region must be abandoned. I see no other solution." Hitler hesitated, evaded, and argued that every inch of ground must be.
Zhitomir, eighty-five miles west of Kiev, glance at the conflagration they have set off. As the Germans withdrew, thev devastated entire cities. depot 120 miles from the fighting. The troops without their armor, suffering crippling losses. of the 25th When had to attack the panzers finally began showing up, General von Schell led them against the Russians holding Fastov again and again, regaining the rail yards but in the end being driven back. The German armor was not strong enough.
Electricity for the factories and mines of the entire western Ukraine. As long as German forces were stationed on the eastern bank there, they would remain a threat to the flanks of any Soviet push to the Sea of Azov and the entrance to the Crimea. Assigned to hold Zaporozhe were three panzer divisions from XL Panzer Corps and the infantry divisions of XVII Army Corps, under General was the Soviet Third Ukrainand two tank corps. Siegfried Henrici. Striving to dislodge Henrici ian Front, with.
Nearly 700,000 troops. Given the length of the front, however, each line division would have to defend a fifteen-mile stretch, almost four times the accepted optimum. But no one believed a major defense would be needed here, at least not for now. The Russians were certainly expected to launch a summer offensive, and even as the skies warmed and the mud dried, the Wehrmacht was preparing to meet it. All the Germans' attention was focused south, toward Galicia, the territory that lies between the.
Intended to crush the largest force of invaders still holding Russian soil, the offensive carried deep historic undertones of Slavic glory and patri- Lacking combat experience on code name, Operation Bagration, honored General Prince Pyotr Bagration, the Russian hero who gave his life at Borodino defending the motherland against Napoleon more than a century earlier. In the weeks beforehand, the Russians mustered a force of 166 divisions the eastern front, Field Marshal Ernst Busch,.