Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Officers (TIME, Oct. 30). Its German brains probably are such Communist civilians as Wilhelm Pieck and Erich Weinert, who have been softening up captured German officers since the summer of 1943. But the spearheads of its appeal to the German people are two Wehrmacht aristocrats who surrendered at Stalingrad: General Walther von Seydlitz, Prussian founder of the Union of German Officers, and the union's highest-ranking member, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus...
Allied correspondents have never forgotten their first view of Paulus at reconquered Stalingrad: a tall, forbidding figure emerging from a hut, holding himself disdainful, starch-stiff and aloof from his Russian captors. At that time the Russians had half a mind to hang him: they had found one of his orders consigning Stalingrad's population to slave labor in Germany...
There was also a sporting pride in the fact of Russia's comeback: in two years the Russian nation in arms had climbed back 1,300 miles from retreat (finally halted at Stalingrad) to crashing victory on the Polish plains...
...that Moscow's Free Germany Committee was preparing to move into East Prussia on the heels of the Russian troops. There was talk, still unconfirmed, of a Provisional German Government. Reported Sofia radio: its head would be Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, captured commander of Germany's Stalingrad armies, who last year joined the Free Germany Committee. Over the Sofia radio he was calling upon the Wehrmacht to end the German ordeal by surrendering to the Russians. Meanwhile ABSIE (American Broadcasting Station in Europe) broadcast that the first Russian governor of occupied Germany "has taken up his functions...
...Army's most brilliant strategists. Stalin has fullest confidence in him. Zhukov had been his chief of staff, in charge of Moscow's defense, during the first awful months of the Wehrmacht's invasion. He had been the shaper and adviser of the Stalingrad counteroffensive, engineer of the Red Army's sweep through the Ukraine...