
119: The September Campaign Pt. 11 - The Southern Front
History of the Second World War
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The German Drive to Wuch
The German 14th Army, under General Wist, would attack along a lengthy front starting just to the west of Kedavitsay and then south. This very lengthy area of the front was occupied by two Polish armies, Krakov and Carpathian. By 1939, there were about 140 bunkers strung out over 22 kilometers of front,. The key point of Army Krakov's defenses was an area known as the Abzar-Varoni-Slask (OWS), which translates into four defined region of Slovakia. Germans knew that the OWS existed, and therefore planned around the strong Polish defenses. Troops of the 8th and 28th German infantry divisions
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