| From 'Tank War' by Janusz Piekalkiewicz
New Soviet Tactics Fail Quote:
4 January 1944, Berlin
The German News Bureau announced:
The great winter battle at Zhitomir which the Soviets launched on December 24 is raging on with unabated ferocity. The vast erosion of personnel and equipment in the assault units has forced the Soviets again and again to bring up fresh units so that they can continue their winter offensive which aims to tear the German front wide open. Their tactics are to drive small groups of tanks and mobile infantry into the points of weakest resistance with the objective of penetrating the rear of the German defence. At the same time they are pushing more and more fresh infantry units into their breach lanes - which of course lie under heavy defensive fire from all our arms - trying to widen and expand them into spearheads. German troops have succeeded in foiling Soviet aims by maintaining a mobile, offensively conducted elastic defence.
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