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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...
This report of a trip through battle-torn Stalingrad was written by Author Konstantin Simonov, published in Moscow's Krasnaya Zvezda and cabled to TIME by its Moscow Correspondent Walter Graebner...
...Stalingrad is no longer a city of cheerful crowds scrambling down steep brown banks for an afternoon swim or an excursion on the Volga. It is no longer a city of men & women riding or walking to work with dinner pails and laced sacks over their arms. Stalingrad is now a grey smoking city above which fire dances day & night and ashes float in the air. Stalingrad is a soldier city burned in battle. Barges have stopped moving food, fuel and lumber up & down the river. Now ferryboats ply back & forth carrying supplies to the embattled city and removing...
Already many streets of the city no longer exist. Others are pitted with craters or full of crashed bombers. The Germans are trying to convert Stalingrad into an uninhabitable hell...