Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle for Stalingrad blazed into full fury again after a protracted lull, the High Command reported. Implying that the struggle was raging unabated, it said "our men are selflessly repelling furious enemy attacks...
MOSCOW--Thirty thousand German troops paced by 100 tanks and many planes stormed a factory settlement in north Stalingrad yesterday and at a cost of 45 tanks and more than 1500 men, pressed back the defending Red Army forces, a Soviet communique revealed today...
...Stalingrad area our troops recaptured positions which they had lost the day before in one district of the town," the High command said in its only mention of infantry activity inside the Volga city...
...Russians were cautious and apprehensive, the German propagandists were definitely unhappy. Having announced the imminent fall of Stalingrad in early September, they did not know what to say last week. So they said less and less. Into their broadcasts crept a familiar note of uncertainty, evasion, desperation. It was the same note which so shook the morale of the German people last year, warning them that their victories of the summer and fall were not victory over the Red Army and Russia...
...Stalingrad falls, most of the German weight will be directed against the Caucasus. There are five ways through the Caucasus: one route on the Caspian Sea, one on the Black Sea, three passes across terrible mountains. They all come out into the southern Caucasus valley, stretching from Batum to Baku. It is most probable that, if Stalingrad falls, the German drive will be directed on Baku...