Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bury the Dead. Last week, after a visit with other correspondents to the Stalingrad area, the New York Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr gave the outer world its clearest view yet of what hit the Germans...
...Below Stalingrad Kerr found 44-year-old, stocky Lieut. General Rodion Yakovlievich Malinovsky, a onetime Czarist soldier who fought beside a U.S. division in France during World War I. Kerr asked General Malinovsky to explain the Red Army's power...
...German news agency: "The German High Command plans to shorten the whole of the Russian front and to build up a new main defense line." Broadcasters and communiqués admitted that the Germans were retiring from the Caucasus, that for the remnants of the once-great army at Stalingrad "there was nothing left but death...
...Luftwaffe was also overtaxed early in the campaign. At first as many as 500 transport planes flew in every day with supplies for the besieged forces at Stalingrad. Later the daily flights averaged 150, losses were constant and the Russians captured several airdromes at both ends of the German supply line, forcing the Germans to fly farther...
...Kalmuck steppes, below Stalingrad, the correspondents saw hundreds of ruined German tanks, munitions dumps captured intact, many abandoned guns. At Kotelnikov, where the Germans had failed in their chief attempt to break through and save their Stalingrad army, Correspondent Kerr traced the history of Axis disaster. In a park which the Germans had made a cemetery when Kotelnikov was securely theirs, the German graves lay between neat rows of bricks, and wooden crosses, bore the name, birth date and rank of each soldier. Then there were shallow graves, marked rudely and in haste. On the battlefields outside the town...