Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luftwaffe, as is also Colonel General Alexander Lohr, who commands ground forces in the Balkans. As an air officer, his job will also be to try to effect an ending to the Tunisian campaign which is less bloody than Dun kirk, less shocking to Germans than the failure at Stalingrad...
...summaries issued last week, the Red Army claimed that it had, in the winter campaign, killed 850,000 Germans and captured 343,525. Earlier Russian figures had stated that during the battle of Stalingrad the Germans had lost 175,000 dead and 137,650 captured. Using the relatively reliable figures for prisoners, this means that 40% of the total casualties were inflicted at Stalingrad. It appeared that the Germans had sacrificed land in favor of men, and that the Russian winter campaign had done more to destroy Hitler's prestige than to destroy Hitler's force...
...Typhus. The northern spring pulled back the sheets of snow and revealed the dead in Norway (see cut). Cleanup squadrons found hundreds of bodies daily in rubble of Stalingrad...
...funds, the two organized a Polish relief committee. Using this project as a front, they began distributing leaflets attacking the Soviet government and urging a separate peace between Russia and Nazi Germany. This transpired at the time when the fate of the United Nations hinged on the Battle of Stalingrad. Consequently Ehrlich and Alter were again brought to trial, convicted, and this time shot...
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa--American forces captured Sened, only 25 miles from the sea, today in a swiftly developing drive across Tunisia and military quarters believed that Marshal Erwin Rommel faced the imminent choice of a Stalingrad or Dunkirk defeat in Africa...