Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of these reports, an Axis army of some 300,000 Germans and Rumanians was all but bottled up in Stalingrad and on the Stalingrad steppes. The encirclement, capture or destruction of this army, along with the loss of the Germans' pivotal position in southern Russia, would be for Hitler a catastrophe greater than the disaster in Libya...
...second week of their culminating blow - and the tenth of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's long effort to break into the Don elbow and relieve Stalingrad from the German rear - the Russians won the positions from which they must now fight for the victory. They cleaned the Germans from a great, thinly defended patch, 50 to 100 miles deep, within the Don bend and west of the corridor between the Don and the Volga. They forced the Germans to establish a defense line on the Don's eastern bank, with their backs to Stalingrad, facing the Russians...
According to the Russians, they controlled the Germans' only main railways into Stalingrad, and even held a spur running westward from Stalingrad to the Don. The Red Army apparently also held or dominated most of the German highway routes...
...Germans capped their apparent calm with a report similar in tone to their accurate (and equally unflurried) forecast of the Rzhev offensive. They said that at Voronezh, where the Russians last summer kept a foothold on the Don 300 miles northwest of Stalingrad, the Red Army was assembling forces for a third offensive southward toward Rostov...
...theory, the U.S. has always accepted these principles, which are basic to a strategy of full offense. In practice, in a year marked by Pearl Harbor, the siege of Stalingrad and the British defeat in Africa in June, the Army & Navy had never dared conform. They tried to build every kind of materiel, expanded as fast as they could outfit the men, often hoarded equipment. If the agreement that Oliver Lyttelton got is really a matter of practice this time, Pearl Harbor is indeed a long way behind...