Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When, on the wrinkled steppe before Stalingrad, the Wehrmacht met defeat, Hitler did not turn for help to one of his Nazi henchmen-Jodl, List, Guderian; he turned to Junker von Manstein. In December 1942, in the marshlands hugging the Caspian Sea, Manstein met in combat the Russian ex-private, Rodion Malinovsky. Manstein's first punch-with massed tanks-sent the Russian reeling back. But soon Malinovsky received help, counterattacked, made the marshes a cemetery for Manstein's men, tanks, hopes...
...reduce Gorodok, the Red command used the new First Baltic Army, with its winter-trained Siberian regiments, which fought at Moscow, Stalingrad, the Don. It massed heavy artillery, tanks, planes. Then, in a heavy snowfall, the Siberians struck out from three directions...
What he had learned, Bagramian put to good use in the 1942-43 winter offensive, born in Stalingrad's ruins. At the head of "X Army," he fought last spring on the approaches to Kharkov, won the Order of Kutuzov, First Class. Still later, in the fields of yellowing grain near Kursk, he took part in the great and decisive summer battle, was promoted to colonel general, became one of the chosen few to wear the treasured Order of Suvorov, First Class. Six weeks ago-probably after he took over the First Baltic Army-he became a full general...
Seydlitz had a story to tell: On Nov. 19, 1942 the Red trap was sprung on the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad. Its ambitious commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, at once asked Hitler's permission to fall back from the untenable positions on the windswept steppe. On Nov. 20, Hitler called an emergency conference at his headquarters, 1 ,400 miles away...
...best German divisions were ordered to form a hedgehog. Hitler alone is responsible for accepting the encirclement. He prevented an immediate possible break-through ... Goring supported Hitler with an irresponsible promise. Hitler and Goring must forever be haunted by the 250,000 dead German soldiers of Stalingrad...