Status Updates From The Guns of August

I always thought it was Hitler that messed up the Germans... But- But they- They're-
They're doing so many... things. So many vile things. Murdering women, infants... old men... Just because they want to terrorize the people.

Russian Checkers: Goal, to lose all one's men
Poddavki

Klausavitz(?)- "The whole weight of all that is sensuous in an army presses for rest and refreshment, which requires exceptional vigour on the part of a commander to see and feel beyond the present moment and to act at once to obtain those results which at the time seem to be the embellishments of victory."