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Military analysts focus on Rostov as the pivotal site where retreating Nazi armies from multiple fronts converge against advancing Russian forces, potentially deciding the fate of Hitler's Russian campaign. Russian gains in the Caucasus suggest minimal German resistance en route.
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Decision at Rostov?
Military strategists eyed Rostov, key communications city at the mouth of the Don river. Here, they felt, history would be written in weeks to come that would determine whether Hitler's Russian adventure would be a complete rout or merely disaster deferred.
Toward Rostov converged the retreating Nazi armies from the south, east and north. Toward Rostov, too, moved the advancing Russian armies whose successful winter offensives had badly upset Nazi tactical calculations. Here the struggle would reach decisive stages.
Continued gains of the Russians in the Caucasus south of Rostov—gains which carried them beyond the strategic rail city of Georgievsk in incredibly short periods—suggested to some observers that the German armies were retiring with virtually no resistance to the Rostov area. These observers pointed out that at Rostov the Nazis might make as bitterly stubborn a resistance as the Reds had at Stalingrad north west on the Volga.
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Rostov
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german armies retreating with virtually no resistance; potential decisive battle at rostov
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Military strategists anticipate a decisive struggle at Rostov, where retreating Nazi armies from south, east, and north converge against advancing Russian forces following successful winter offensives. Russian gains in the Caucasus beyond Georgievsk suggest minimal German resistance, though Nazis may resist stubbornly like at Stalingrad.