Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, the German commander in south Russia, would have esteemed Vassily Kochetkov, a junior lieutenant of the Red Army. Bock commanded 1,000,000 or more men, fighting for Stalingrad, the Volga and the Caucasus. Junior Lieut. Kochetkov commanded 16 Red Guardsmen holding a hillock before Stalingrad...
...themselves "Bock's own dying heroes." But, at his command, they fought well, and by the thousands they died. With the abundance of guns, tanks and planes which Bock gave them, they drove the men of the Red Army from the hills, the valleys and the villages before Stalingrad...
...Faces. Men of other nations read the news from the Volga. They were told what defeat at Stalingrad would mean: victory for the Germans in their summer campaign; a Russia dismembered, isolated, weakened; German hordes and German planes free for battle in western Europe or in the Middle East; a disaster possibly worse than all the other disasters of World War II. With these possibilities only too imminent, it was easy, now, to believe that the cold, harsh face of Bock could turn into the face of victory for Hitler and the Germans. That face was everywhere in Russia...
Winter alone will not halt the Germans, nor rob them of their summer gains. (After one bitter winter in Russia the German armies came back to strike at Stalingrad and the Caucasus.) The snows which soon will block the high Caucasian passes will not block the low roads along the Black and Caspian Seas to Batum, Baku and the Middle East. Only the Red Armies in the Caucasus-so far unable to block the approaches, and soon likely to be cut off from the body of Russia-can block the roads. Winter will not sink the Germans' motor barges...
...week the writers of the communiques and dispatches did not know how the battle was going. Neither, probably, did the soldiers and commanders who fought in the dust-brown hell outside the city. A few more days of death and agony on the field would determine the fate of Stalingrad and the Volga...