Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy's next reaction had been alarm, for the Eighth's rapid advance could develop into a flank attack against the Germans on the peninsula's other side. From the Volturno front Field Marshal Albert Kesselring rushed the 16th Armored Division, veteran of Stalingrad and Salerno, to counterattack at Termoli...
George VI of England gave "the steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad" a four-foot, two-handed sword with a double-edged blade, a chased silver crosspiece, a grip wrapped in 18-carat gold wire, a pommel of rock crystal...
...City That Stopped Hitler-Heroic Stalingrad (Central Newsreel Studios-Paramount), first Soviet film to be distributed by a major U.S. company, has been called the "mightiest war film ever" (by Manhattan's PM). It has also been called "objectionable in part" (by the Legion of Decency). Reason: the picture "tends to incite hatred of the persons of enemies and to be excessively gruesome." Stalingrad is not by a long shot the mightiest war film ever-Desert Victory (TIME, April 12), for one, was better. Neither can the Legion's objections be entirely brushed off. Nevertheless, the 24 Russian...
...would have looked like wishful thinking. About a year ago every Allied line of attack seemed to be a line drawn in sand, to be erased by the next Axis tide. Russia's effort to attack at Kharkov had been wiped out and the Nazi armies flowed around Stalingrad. Rommel had rolled the British back from Bengasi and was beating against the gates of El Alamein. On the other side of the world the U.S. fought frantically to keep a toe hold on a 90-mile-long island in the Pacific...
Peace without Calamity? From Moscow came news that four German generals and more than 100 other Wehrmacht officers, mostly captured at Stalingrad, had formed a German Officers' Union; that General of Artillery Walther von Seidlitz had been elected its president. Just as the Soviet Union Government had indirectly sponsored the parent. National Free Germany Committee and its manifesto proposing a democratic, capitalistic postwar Germany (TIME, Aug. 30), so the Soviet Union Government last week sponsored the Officers' Union and its declaration. That declaration, printed in Pravda and broadcast from Moscow, told Wehrmacht leaders, in effect, how they might...