Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really definite news it was perfectly clear that the Americans were closing in on the town. And with the obvious folly the French had already shown in the earlier operations, I wasn't sure they might not be fools enough to attempt to try to make a Stalingrad of the town. So the morning of the 11th maybe it wasn't a relief to find that an armistice had been arranged! I called on the Swiss consul who had taken over American interests, found that the American consulate people were expected back soon. The Swiss took...
...Maikop, the only oil center they had captured. They also lost a controlling point (Tikhoretsk) on the rail line connecting Rostov with the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, the Germans' only alternate way of retreat from the Caucasus, and that alternative was itself being threatened near Krasnodar. The Stalingrad area had been almost cleared (see below), releasing troops and freeing rail lines for the Rostov battles...
...Stalingrad was a graveyard for 100,000 of the Herrenvolk's fresh, young sons, The Caucasian oilfields of Maikop were lost. Along the Eastern Front, along the North African coast, the Fuhrer's hurt and weary armies were in retreat...
MOSCOW--The Russian Army swept in today to complete Adolf Hitler's greatest military disaster--utter defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad with a loss of more than 1,000,000 men--and reported that total victory would be won in a matter of hours...
Only a ragtag handful of Germans, the diehards of a vaunted army of 330,000 trapped more than two months ago, remained entrenched in the wreckage of Stalingrad's factory area. Another 900 of them had been killed in the last few hours, and many more were captured...