Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians claimed that a Finnish motorized battalion was helping the Germans at Stalingrad and that "old men and cripples" were being conscripted to help the Germans storm Leningrad. In Washington Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope denied the charges, added that Finland "wants to cease fighting as soon as the threat to her existence has been averted" and her security guaranteed...
...Middle East through Turkey. Colonel General Löhr, newly appointed Luftwaffe commander for the Balkans, was one of Hitler's best. He it was who led the famed Coventry raid in 1940. Commanding Germany's Fourth Air Fleet, he had maintained supremacy of the air over Stalingrad for a month. When winter froze the Russian front the Fourth Air Fleet might follow its commander to the Balkans, where it probably could cause a great deal of trouble to any plans the British might have for the region...
...Hitler had to announce was that Stalingrad would be taken soon, and that is long overdue. After that, he will stop temporarily to consolidate his gains, confident that the democracies will not use this time to their own advantage," the Smith professor continued...
Nowhere were there signs such as portend an army's breakup, no sudden quickening of the enemy advance, no telling breakthroughs, no confusion and disintegration in rear communications. On the contrary, the German advance was slower, if anything, inch by inch into Stalingrad. Russian communications were still in order, bringing fresh troops, guns and planes to the front...
London heard that, if Stalingrad fell, Hitler intended to stabilize the Russian front behind strong fortifications (except perhaps for a push toward the Baku oilfields along the Caspian shore rather than through the freezing Caucasian passes). Such stability would allow Hitler to turn perhaps 70 of his 215 Russian divisions into the Middle East, reinforce his western front, and return skilled workers to the factories from the army. A push toward Suez and the Indian Ocean would pull the United Nations' attention away from the Continent and, if successful, would be a disaster doubtless prolonging the war for years...