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...British strategists today are deep in a guessing game. Was the Wehrmacht's retreat in Russia a rout or a planned withdrawal? Will Hitler make a stand on the Dnieper Line? (A Swedish daily quoted him: "Here I am and here I shall remain.") If this line falls, where will the Wehrmacht stand next...
...August, the German command knew it faced a major defeat. Its problem then was to withdraw its men and materiel to the next defensible line, on the Dnieper. It has done so with great skill. According to Moscow's claims, Hitler's gamble in July cost the Wehrmacht more than 1,500.000 in dead and wounded, close to 10,000 tanks, nearly 6,000 planes. It cost heavily in space and in morale. But by a series of delaying actions the Wehrmacht was saved...
Berlin has made it plain that the Wehrmacht hopes to hold on to the Dnieper Line (see map). In the two weeks which followed the loss of Smolensk, it has yielded only Kremenchug. At some points the front is still as much as 40 miles east of Hitler's defense wall. Yet the Russian pressure is immense. Early this week, most of the bastions of this line-Vitebsk, Mogilev, Gomel, Kiev, Melitopol-were in danger...
Winter Prospects. If the Dnieper Line does not crumble this week or next, it may crumble in the winter, when ice will bridge the river and the Pripet Marshes. The Wehrmacht v.ill then fall back upon its second line, running through the fortresses of Odessa, Zhitomir, Pinsk, Minsk and Riga. If this falls too, the German Army will still have a third line of defense, behind Russia's old frontier. But with each retreat, the Wehrmacht will be weaker, its defense lines less formidable...
...Army surged to the Dnieper, the fears of the summer grew to certainties: Finland had blundered again. No longer could Banker-President Risto Ryti and his Cabinet tell each other that Russia would so weaken herself against the Wehrmacht that she would have to listen to Finnish demands for the old frontiers, plus a good slice of Soviet Karelia. No longer could the men who run Finland ignore the pointed hints from London and Washington that Finland would have to find...