Word: paulus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This week Seydlitz' former commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, silent since his capture at Stalingrad, declared: "The war is lost for Germany. . . . Because of the state and military leadership of Hitler ... the war has been transformed into a senseless bloodshed...
...Germans may yet issue orders to General Eduard Dietl similar to those given Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus at Stalingrad: fight to the last man; kill as many Russians as possible over as long a period as possible. Dietl may try to form a quisling government in northern Finland and start a civil war. This would tie up considerable Russian strength for some time. A Russian attack on Dietl and his force of typical occupation troops (older men and boys) may be expected as soon as an armistice with the Finns is signed. Dietl, the "Hero of Narvik...
...first time the Russian man-in-the-street knew what Voronov looked like. One photograph showed him receiving his medal from small, bearded President Mikhail Kalinin, and smiling self-consciously, like a boy in his first long pants. Another showed him questioning beaten Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus in a bare room near Stalingrad. On Moscow's Kuznetsky Most, an enterprising art gallery exhibited his portrait in oil-blue eyes, bulbous nose, big, friendly mouth, heavy jowls...
...Paulus was ordered to hold on. The following night he reported to Hitler that adequate defenses could not be erected. Hitler was adamant...
Seydlitz himself asked Paulus' permission to ignore Hitler's order and break through the Russian ring while it could still be done. On Nov. 24, he filed a written protest against Hitler's decision. But it was already too late...