Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arms which Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' First U.S. Army had thrown around Aachen in a classic bear hug had posed two deadly questions to the Germans : 1 ) should the ancient spa (and modern textile and coal mining center) be defended to the last cellar, as a Stalingrad-like model for the German home front? 2) was it also the focus of the main Allied offensive to smash the Siegfried Line...
Only the 60-mile gap around Kweilin stood between the Japs and their immediate strategic objectives in China-a continuous 2,000-mile front and communications system from Siberia to the South China Sea. Chungking, desperately hoping to make Kweilin the Stalingrad of Free China, worked mightily to stave off disaster...
Taking issue with his colleagues, Reuters' dry, Scottish John Gibbons declared: "I disagree very sharply with what Mr. Winterton said. I definitely do not feel that the work of Soviet war correspondents has been bad. . . . They have been to Leningrad and Stalingrad. . . . Even if they were the most incompetent nincompoops in the world they would write stirring articles about those things...
...blitz. And Britons worried over the look of the world to come. For Poland, even victory would mean a national tragedy. For France, it was a vast questionmark. Ever since the blitz failed the British had known that victory would one day be theirs, as the Germans after Stalingrad and North Africa had glimpsed the spectre of defeat. And they knew something else-at once comforting and alarming...
Ragtag Army. The 3,000 who remained were a ragtag little army of cooks, truck drivers, sailors, punishment platoons. But their commander was a man obsessed: tall, grey Colonel Andreas von Auloch. He had been at Stalingrad, had seen the Russians turn that siege to victory. Captured Germans said he was a madman, added that his wife and children had been killed in a Berlin bombing...