Dniepropetrovsk
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Outflanked, the German troops in Dniepropetrovsk abandoned the great city, with its wrecked power plants and factories, for a desperate flight southward.
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Bald Marshal Semion Timoshenko was within 20 miles of Dniepropetrovsk and its wrecked power dam, bulling his way ahead at the tip of a sharp salient.
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Now, as the mobilization trains crawled toward Orel, Kursk, Kharkov and Dniepropetrovsk, leave was becoming just a memory, the sharper because of what lay ahead.
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Reported but not admitted was the capture of Dniepropetrovsk, a city of 500,000 which produced a large proportion of the Soviet Union's iron and steel.
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