GERMAN VERSION
PART OF GRAND STRATEGY LONDON, Sept. 26 The German news agency’s military writer says the German High Command is aiming at a correction of the Russian front which will completely change the face of the war. He states that the evacuation of Smolensk was decided three weeks
ago as part of a grand strategy. All the important supplies were moved cut before the defensive battle reached its climax. A German radio commentator, referring to the evacuation of Smolensk and other centres on the Russian front, said: “We have given up considerable territory in the east. This was not dene because we did not want these vast regions, blit as a direct consequence of the Soviet offensive. We had to decide upon mobile warfare in order to eliminate our losses as far as possible and inflict the greatest possible losses on the enemy.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22153, 27 September 1943, Page 5
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