Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly captured city of Zhitomir lay midway between Stalingrad, where the Germans stood a year ago, and Berlin; Zhitomir was only 125 miles from Bessarabia, 60 miles from prewar Poland. In the north, the front line lay only 50 to 150 miles from Russia's pre-1939 borders...
...Since Stalingrad, foreign newscasters speaking from Russia have been permitted to indulge more freely in military speculation. Most of the censors are "bright young men with a fine sense of humor...
...fighting at Kursk [last July] witnessed the destruction of the main forces. ... [It] was the last German attempt to materialize the so-called German offensive. The offensive ended in a complete fiasco. ... If Stalingrad was a defeat.. . Kursk was a catastrophe...
...Army had thus ended what was probably the toughest part of the offensive begun at Stalingrad a year ago. It had beaten the Wehrmacht in its prime, vaulted over two great river barriers (Donets, Dnieper), captured the strongest of the enemy's strongholds (Rostov, Kharkov, Orel, Bryansk, Smolensk, Melitopol, Kiev...
...City That Stopped Hitler-Heroic Stalingrad (TIME...