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“The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.”

— Franz Halder

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The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

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