| | Eastern Front (WWII) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27) |
 | | As the Red Army withdrew behind the Dniepr and Dvina rivers, the Soviet hierarchy turned its attention to moving as much of the region's heavy industry as it could dismantle and pack onto flatcars away from the front line, re-establishing it in more remote areas behind the Urals and in Central Asia. |
 | | Though intense battles of movement throughout late July and into August 1943 saw the Tigers blunting Soviet tanks on one axis, they were soon outflanked on another line to the west as the Soviets advanced down the Psel, and Kharkov had to be evacuated for the final time on 22 August. |
 | | At this time Hitler agreed to a general withdrawal to the Dniepr line, along which was meant to be the Ostwall, a line of defence similar to the Westwall (of fortifications along the West German frontier also known as the "Siegfried Line"). |
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