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Adolf Hitler's retreat to elastic defenses may have been too late for anything less than the complete failure of his Russian campaign. If so, his only hope is to withdraw to the Reich and convert it (and Western Europe) into an impregnable fortress (TIME, Feb. 8). But that remained to be proved. What had been proved was that the Red Army was giving his Wehrmacht no rest or resting place...
Clear the Road. "I am in despair," wrote a German soldier in his diary on Hitler's tenth anniversary as the Reich's Chancellor. "How much longer is it going to last? . . . What have I done? If I could only live in peace." When Soviet Author Ilya Ehrenburg saw the diary he provided the answer: "Who asked you to come to our country? You could have stayed at home with your wife. But you chose Hitler. There is only one thing left for you: 'Die, scoundrel! Clear the road for life...
Clear Thinking. It was unfortunate but true that this growing state of apprehension played directly into Germany's hands, and would continue to do so unless Washington and London grappled intelligently with the problem. In his weekly magazine, Das Reich, Propaganda Minister Goebbels picked up the ragged theme of recent speeches by Hitler and Goring. He predicted the end of Western civilization if Germany did not remain as a bulwark against Communism, adding slyly: "Perhaps even in London there are a few clear-thinking men who could imagine what that would mean for Britain...
...atmosphere of disaster blanketed the Reich last week. The Nazis decreed three days of mourning for the 330,000 German soldiers who had fought and lost at Stalingrad. Through press and radio the Germans were barraged with exhortations to put forth their greatest effort to hold back the danger from the east. In London and Washington Allied leaders cautioned their people against taking the signs from the Reich as too hopeful indications of an early collapse. But signs were there...
Manpower. To raise more than 1,000,000 workers and soldiers for war jobs and replacements at the front, Reich Economic Minister Walther Funk issued decrees of total mobilization. Retail tradesmen, restaurants and hotels were required to release every possible man. Theaters, bars, nightclubs and other places of amusement were closed down...