Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resistance to the Japanese invasion of northern China, or when Litvinoff was the only representative of a major power to speak for Ethiopia against Italy, or when the U.S.S.R. alone made an effort to defeat Franco in Spain? Or during the '40s, while the battles of Sevastopol and Stalingrad were being fought, while the U.S.S.R. was managing to save more of the Jewish civilians left in Europe than any other major power, or perhaps while the charter of the United Nations Organization was being signed...
...Said Witness Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, who had turned anti-Nazi after losing the Battle of Stalingrad: ["I tried in vain to] find some sense for the suffering and death of so many soldiers...
...Christmas Eve, 1942, in Berlin. Carpenter Franz Mueller argued the news from Stalingrad with his neighbor, Sign Painter Hubert Knopf...
...delegates of 51 nations gathered last week for the first UNO General Assembly. They met on a great battlefield of the war-London. That battle, as much as Stalingrad or Midway, had been a turning point in the war. Though the delegates inevitably brought lesser interests along, they gathered also with a sense of dedication. Around the globe, the living shared...
...black dress stepped to the platform. Said she: "In the name of the fatherland there will be a salute to the gallant warriors of the First Ukrainian front who have broken the defenses of the Germans - 20 volleys of artillery from 224 guns." The dark days of Stalingrad were over; the Polish offensive of January 1945 had begun...