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Reds Assert Thousands of Nazis Killed
- Sub-Headline
- Leningrad and Kiev Defenses Said Standing
- Publication Date
- Sunday, September 7, 1941
- Historical Event
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German Government Forces Jews to Wear Yellow Stars
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- The red army Sunday reported the slaughter of German troops "by the thousands" and destruction of hundreds of nazi tanks in smashing assaults that hurled Adolf Hitler's wehrmacht back from Leningrad, Kiev and the banks of the lower Dnieper.
The Soviet high command in a communique early Saturday described a stubborn stand by the red army all along the 2,000-mile front from the arctic to the Crimea, marked by savage aerial combats and murderous artillery fire.
"German soldiers by the thousands, hundreds of tanks and armored cars and trucks and scores of artillery, mortar and machine-gun batteries are being annihilated by the accurate fire of our guns," the communique said.
60 Planes Destroyed
The red air fleet, blasting with quickened tempo at German columns moving up to the sieges of Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa, was said to have destroyed 60 nazi planes on Wednesday and 61 on Thursday, in air battles and in attacks on the luftwaffe's rear-line airdromes. The loss of seven Russian planes on Thursday—a ratio
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