Word: leningraders
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...Army units attacked on the Volkhov sector southeast of Leningrad, captured a village. Berlin long ago reported Russian concentrations in this area...
...German dispatches admitted that the Russians had recaptured Schlusselburg, south of Leningrad on Lake Ladoga, breaking the Axis ring around Leningrad after a year of siege...
Hitler's 1942 campaign to knock Russia out of the war, to win oil and Lebensraum, had ended without having achieved a single important strategic objective. Leningrad and Stalingrad still stood at two ends of a ragged, frozen, 1,000-mile front...
...relative numbers of men and weapons, but in capacity for winter war. Perhaps the Russians were hoping only to exploit that margin again when, according to German reports last week, they began to concentrate forces for a two-pronged offensive on their hitherto inactive fronts between Moscow and Leningrad. These preparations may enable the Russians to take advantage of any further margin which the Mediterranean front may create...
...areas squeezed into odd corners of already crowded rooms. Valenki (knee-high felt winter boots) and beds were used in rotation by people working on different shifts. Bread rations in central Russia are two pounds of black bread per day for heavy workers, one pound for children. In besieged Leningrad men get 150 grams (5 oz.) of bread a day and little else...