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...Club. A new and terrible form of offensive pressed the Russians back last week. The Germans had discarded Blitzkrieg, given their new technique a new name: Mot pulk (motorized mass movement...
...with all German modes of war, Mot pulk was not new in its elements, but in its design and use. The Germans, who once scorned weight and mass for the lighter, faster Panzer technique, had now gone whole hog for mass. So had other armies. The achievement of Hitler's Chief of Staff Franz Haider was in giving his mass a speed and flexibility which in pace rivaled his 1939-41 Blitzkrieg...
...Unprecedented concentrations of very heavy, semi-mobile artillery are the newest feature of Mot pulk. Star pieces (shown in Nazi films) are two immense mortars: the Krupp-built "Thor," a 42-cm. (about 17-in.) monster, bigger than the biggest U.S. battleship gun; and a 61.5-cm. supermonster, mounted on a four-track rail truck. These presumably were the weapons which helped to pulverize Sevastopol. They were far too big for use on quickly shifting fronts such as the Don. But, if Rostov and Stalingrad fell under siege, the Russians would probably feel their weight again...
...Luftwaffe's front-line role has been intensified beyond anything seen in previous German campaigns. Colonel General Wolfram von Richthofen (cousin of Germany's great World War I ace), who had the job of fitting the Luftwaffe to Mot pulk, devised his plan during the spring lull. Chief change: the number of dive-bombers on a given front has been tripled, and even quadrupled, to hurl the maximum weight from the air at Red troops, artillery and tanks...
...MOT Producer Louis de Rochemont explained that after submission to six State and four local censorship boards, The Ramparts met objections only in Pennsylvania, has had successful runs in 15 large U. S. cities. He announced he would appeal the Philadelphia decision to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and on up if necessary. Said he: "My interpretation of the Court's decision is that the Court has not fully realized that our use of the interpolated material from the German propaganda film, Baptism of Fire, was deliberately such as to transform a piece of Nazi propaganda into American propaganda...