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...late fall of 1942, the entire German Sixth Army, which in the summer months of the same year had pushed its way across the Don and into the industrial city of Stalingrad on the Volga, was cut off from its Army Group and left to shift for itself 300,000 men deep inside the Russian front, supplied inefficiently by air and gradually being killed among the snow-covered steppes and hills and the shattered remains of the city...
...siege of Stalingrad is not only interesting tactically, but many historians and most of the captured German generals maintain that it was the actual turning point of the war. Theodor Plievier, a German left-wing writer who made his reputation in the 1920's with violent attacks on militarism and imperialism, wrote "Stalingrad" during the war, presumably in Russia and with Soviet blessing. The book was published in Berlin shortly after the end of the war, and has since sold over a million copies in Germany alone. Although it is slightly slanted to glorify the Russian Army and was extremely...
More than 112,000, including the new "alert police" (who were wearing green-dyed Luftwaffe uniforms), were under arms. Probable commander of the "alert" force was German General Walther von Seydlitz,* survivor of Stalingrad and a key figure of the Moscow-sponsored Free Germany Committee. On the evening of Oct. 153 special Russian plane landed him at Johannisthal-Schbneweide airfield near Berlin; then he was whisked to Soviet military headquarters at Karlshorst...
Just behind Fischer in the new police setup was the minister of the interior of Brandenburg Province, Bernhard Bechler. Still in his 40's (and a former major in the Nazi Eighth army at Stalingrad), Bechler was as yet little known outside Berlin; but Berliners had begun to call him "the new Himmler." Talking with fellow Communists, Bechler was succinct. Said he recently: "We have until 1950, at the latest, to liquidate the bourgeois parties. By that time, the state police will be trebled and so well trained that, with the help of them and of the armed action...
Bechler's private life reads like the plot of a bad novel. After the Russians captured him at Stalingrad, he consented to go on the Moscow radio. Neighbors brought the good news to Frau Bechler: Bernhard was alive. Frau Bechler promptly denounced the neighbors to the Gestapo-for listening to the enemy radio...