Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans were in Stalingrad. The Germans had reached the Volga...
...Said a German correspondent broadcasting from the Stalingrad front: "The horizon seems to heave up. Gigantic mushrooms of greenish black and white are spreading everywhere. On my right Panzers are in position. Straight ahead infantry have reached the first houses...
Russian reserves, drawn from western Siberia where Marshals Voroshilov and Budenny have been training huge new armies, were thrown into the Stalingrad struggle to relieve weary Red Army fighters who had been hammered slowly back toward the Volga during torrid August and September weeks. The reserves came from training camps in Western Siberia, not from the front line in the east where a section of the Red Army guards against any Japanese attack. If Marshal Timoshenko expected Stalingrad to fall he was almost certainly withdrawing-and saving -the bulk of his veteran troops for battles to come...
...less than 1,000-yard range; artillery and infantry closed around isolated German units. The tactics were good, as witnessed by the slowness of the German advance. But they were not enough to halt Marshal Fedor von Bock's creep through smashed, smoking ruins toward the heart of Stalingrad. As a new week started the Germans claimed they had reached a vital harbor section of the city which stretched 25 miles along the Volga bend; they won, lost, then won again a hill from which they shelled the heart of bomb-beaten Stalingrad...
With or without Stalingrad and the Volga, the Red Army would fight on. The question was how it would fight, how effectively to preserve the rest of Russia, how potently as an ally of the United Nations. There were no pat answers. Hitler had not achieved his maximum objective: destruction of the Red Army. But his minimum objective constituted a great victory for Germany, a great threat to the Allied cause...