Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Late. By the third week of last June the Germans were storming Sevastopol. They had broken a great Russian assault on Kharkov. They had completed their preparations for the Wehrmacht's advance to disaster in the Caucasus and at Stalingrad. Between the end of March and June's third week this year, the Germans had merely held what they retrieved from the Russian winter offensive. Nowhere had the Russians attempted an attack on the scale of their Kharkov offensive last year. Only in the Kuban, the Germans' last bridgehead in the Caucasus, had the Red Army attempted...
Russians used them to whip artillery to the Stalingrad front to crush Nazi tank attacks. British used them to scout, fight and pursue Rommel 2,000 miles. U.S. troops had one waiting for President Roosevelt at Casablanca. Everywhere the tough, square, squat jeeps are bouncing the backsides of the United Nations. Potentates and savages ride jeeps; soldiers regard them fondly, pat their rugged sides. But the fondest pats of all come from Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., foster parent of the jeep. To Willys the jeep is a plug-ugly duckling who laid a golden...
...knew on Feb. 22 was that Hans and Maria Scholl and Adrian Probst had been beheaded. Since then other Munich citizens have laid their heads on the block before a white-gloved axman: Kurt Huber, a professor of psychology for 17 years; a lad who exchanged a leg at Stalingrad for the Iron Cross, First Class; at least nine other students. By last week it was apparent that the Nazis were worried. There were more arrests at Munich and a close watch on students at the schools. No one outside Germany could tell for certain how far the opposition...
...dead of Stalingrad exhort us. Arise, ye people, the time has come...
...said, "and see you in a day or two." Then, with traditional Russian courtesy, he inquired about his visitor's health (ailing Joe Davies had brought to Russia a supply of dehydrated food and an intestinal specialist). The informal chat touched on Joe Davies' stop-off at Stalingrad to lay a wreath on the unknown Russian soldiers' grave. Remarked Stalin quickly: Did Mr. Davies see the graves of 96,000 Germans near...