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Word: stalingraders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defeat of the German Army was decided ... at the end of last year. ... The Battle of Stalingrad ended with the destruction of an army of 300,000 men. . . . At the end of the Stalingrad battle 147,210 officers and men v. ere picked up from the battlefield and buried. . . . After the Stalingrad slaughter the Germans were unable to recover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Ousting is at Hand | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

Melitopol. Two weeks ago another force, under rotund and brilliant Colonel General Fedor Tolbukhin, increased pressure on Melitopol. Himself a veteran of Stalingrad, Tolbukhin had under him many a Stalingrad veteran-tough and fire-tested. To these men, fate seemed kind, for in Melitopol there were Germans they hated most: units of the Sixth Army, destroyed at Stalingrad and now resurrected with new blood; the Seventeenth Army, responsible for atrocities in the Caucasus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Triumph on the Dnieper | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...City That Stopped Hitler-Heroic Stalingrad (Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 25, 1943 | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...Stalingrad, like most films of real war, generates an even greater power from the dead-ordinary, rather messy shots which incontestably record the immense clumsiness, the spurts of craziness, the human ordinariness of war. The soldiers who crowd a boat to cross the wintry Volga, when the action turns against the Germans, do not look like a turn in the tide of world history: they look like a pack of freezing immigrants. When whole fields of guns go off, the spasm of trees, the twitching of grasses, the shuddering of the soil indicate war's vast violation of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Images of War | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...Stalingrad's images are mere syllables, heroic or humble, in the terrific vocabulary of war which motion-picture cameras are now recording. They turn up in any war film, any good newsreel. What is done with them is what counts. Leonid Varlamov, who edited Stalingrad, is a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Cinema Art, and works in the great tradition of Eisenstein. He has produced a literal, well-organized film, which lacks the heroic imagination that might have made Stalingrad a memorial adequate to the subject. More damaging to Stalingrad is John Wexler's commentary whereby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Images of War | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

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