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...eyed, blond giant is one of the Red Army's most brilliant field commanders and leading candidate for a marshal's baton (TIME, Aug. 23). His greatest personal triumph was also the greatest victory thus far in World War II: the capture of Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus and 330,000 Nazis at Stalingrad...
Gaudiest feather in his cap was his command of the Stalingrad relief campaign. Rokossovsky's forces-tanks, infantry, artillery, aircraft and cavalry-crossed the Don to form a ring around Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus' 22 divisions, anticipated the point of a German counterattack, and in savage and protracted battle defeated the powerful Panzer army of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein. It was Rokossovsky who signed the demand for capitulation sent to Paulus, which was rejected and which led to the final destruction of Hitler's Stalingrad army. It was the greatest single victory...
Having won the first round by surprise, the Russians pressed their advantages. Sticking to the roads, they pushed through to the northwest of Kursk, and moved into positions to the northeast and southeast. Planes dropped pamphlets showing pictures of the captured Field Marshal von Paulus at Stalingrad and describing the slow strangulation there. The three groups attacked concentrically. Kursk fell so fast that even the Russians must have been surprised...
...Russo-German war, if not in all of World War II-approached its end. The Red Army had killed or captured most of the German and Rumanian troops that had been hammering the city since last August. In the final stages even the Nazi Commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, surrendered along with 16 other generals...
Thus the President impaled his armchair critics on the parallel of Lucius Aemilius Paulus, dead 2,101 years. The toasting was well-timed. But still unsolved, by Lucius Aemilius Paulus or by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was one great problem of a democracy in wartime: Where does legitimate criticism end and subversive criticism begin...