Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This week Seydlitz' former commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, silent since his capture at Stalingrad, declared: "The war is lost for Germany. . . . Because of the state and military leadership of Hitler ... the war has been transformed into a senseless bloodshed...
...publicly embodied desperation. He talked & talked as if he would talk away the hovering spectre of failure. He promised victory, threatened dire punishments to Germans who failed to respond to the crisis. He proclaimed total war as if it had never before been proclaimed on earth-not even after Stalingrad. The desperate measures he announced might stave off defeat for months. But to many, his threats must have seemed less like total war than total mobilization of the last broken cracker on the bottom of the barrel...
...Stalingrad, the Nazis still had air superiority. But as the tide of the whole war turned at Stalingrad, the tide of the air turned also. The Russians were getting more planes from their factories as well as by Lend-Lease. They were getting shrewder designs, better-trained air fighters. The U.S. and British air forces were beginning to grind down the Luftwaffe in its factories and in the air. As the great counteroffensive rolled westward, the Russians achieved something like air equality...
...Chairs. One of the bitterest blows of a bitter German week was the sudden appearance, east of the Latvian border, of stocky, limping General Andrei Yeremenko, seven-times-wounded hero of Stalingrad, Smolensk, the Crimea. Between Drissa and Pskov, quiescent up to last week, lay the last thin strip of Soviet territory still in German hands. Attacking on this 100-mile front, Yeremenko made gains up to 25 miles. On the narrow Issa River, the Germans blew up their ferries and crossings, but Yeremenko's doughty men swarmed across on small boats, rafts and logs...
Russians, a vigorous people, often carry on the most casual conversation as if they were describing the battle of Stalingrad. They sometimes sing as if they were possessed of seven devils and a Trotskyite. They often sing loudly in They Met in Moscow. But the picture's lyrical ebullience, its naively intense people, its fresh landscapes combine to make something rare in cinema-an unaffected pastoral comedy, spontaneous as a freshet, natural as a pail of warm milk...