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...smashed sack of sugar. "The ants found themselves facing a new situation," Grass wrote, "but, undismayed by the detour, soon built a new highway round the doubled-up Matzerath, for the sugar that trickled out of the burst sack had lost none of its sweetness while Marshal Rokossovski was occupying the city of Danzig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dentist's Chair as an Allegory in Life | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

Messages to Moscow. It was Roessler's inside information, according to the authors, that allowed Soviet Marshals Zhukov, Rokossovski and Eremenko to draw the Wehrmacht into the encirclement of Stalingrad and thus turn the tide of the war in the East. Roessler also provided Russian propagandists with information-direct from Hitler's headquarters-that was used over loudspeakers to break the German resistance: "Panzer grenadiers of the 24th, we shall not be south of Voronezh the day after tomorrow as your leaders have assured you. Save your bread, your ammunition and your gasoline. The luckiest will be those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Would You Believe? | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

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