Sentence examples for main German forces from inspiring English sources

This fatal decision doomed Paulus' forces, since the main German forces now simply lacked the reserves needed to break through the Soviet encirclement singlehandedly.

Though the Allied advance was continuing and seemed in some sectors even to be accelerating, the main German forces had managed to retreat ahead of it.

The German high command urged Hitler to allow Paulus and his forces to break out of the encirclement and rejoin the main German forces west of the city, but Hitler would not contemplate a retreat from the Volga River and ordered Paulus to "stand and fight".

The German high command urged Hitler to allow Paulus and his forces to break out of the encirclement and rejoin the main German forces west of the city, but Hitler would not contemplate a retreat from the Volga River and ordered Paulus to "stand and fight". With winter setting in and food and medical supplies dwindling, Paulus's forces grew weaker.

The operation was a "deep penetration" maneuver, attacking not the main German force at the forefront of the battle for Stalingrad the 250,000 remaining men of the Sixth Army and Fourth Panzer Army, both formidable foes but instead hitting the weaker flanks.

He boarded Princess Royal at 12 20 p.m. and ordered the ships to pursue the main German force.

The main German striking force was the XLVII Panzer Corps, with one and a half SS Panzer Divisions and two Wehrmacht Panzer Divisions.

But Colonel Glantz concludes, after scrutinizing the documents, that the Red Army initially made every reasonable effort to come to the Poles' assistance and later chose not to -- Stalin's political considerations aside -- because such action would have required a major reorientation of military efforts and a consequent slackening of the main offensive against German forces.

By 3 August, Patton and the Third Army were able to leave a small force in Brittany and drive eastward towards the main concentration of German forces south of Caen.

The Red Army also stepped up attacks against Army Group Center and set up dummy formations to maintain the idea of a main offensive against German forces in the center of the Soviet Union.

With Tobruk under siege from the main German-Italian force, a small battlegroup (Kampfgruppe) commanded by Colonel Maximilian von Herff continued to press eastward.