Word: stalingraders
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...insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation. It was impossible to dismiss him as a mountebank, a paper hanger. The suffering and desolation that he wrought was beyond human power or fortitude to compute. The bodies of his victims were heaped across Europe from Stalingrad to London. The ruin in terms of human lives was forever incalculable. It had required a coalition of the whole world to destroy the power his political inspiration had contrived. How had it happened? If it was necessary to exterminate Hitler and his works, it was equally necessary to try to understand...
...ashes of death, Berlin stood as a monument to the enormous sufferings and the monumental resolution of the Red Army, and imperturbable Marshal Zhukov had been the chief instrument of that Army's victory. Up from the darkest days before Moscow, up from the bloody pit of Stalingrad and the snows and mud and dust of the Ukraine and Poland, he now stood before Berlin as one of the truly great military leaders of World...
...division commander, stocky, solemn, Major General Emil F. Reinhardt, crossed the Elbe in one of several flimsy racing barges commandeered from a German boathouse. Next day the V Corps commander, Major General Clarence Huebner, arrived and was presented with a tattered Soviet flag carried all the long way from Stalingrad. By that time the place was swarming with G.I.s and the fraternization was uproarious. Both the G.I.s and the U.S. brass hats learned that Russians are the world's most enthusiastic proposers of toasts, and the most capable consumers. The supply of vodka seemed endless...
...resistance died; Dusseldorf fell. The bag of prisoners was astonishing: more than 317,000. There was no complete count of the enemy dead; the total would probably be more than 25.000. Thus the Ruhr had yielded a greater harvest of annihilation than the Russians' tide-turning triumph at Stalingrad, with its total of 330,000 killed and captured...
...guns thundered out along the Oder. The Marshal's tested team of Army commanders-Colonel Generals Katukov and Bogdanov of the tanks; Belov, the cavalry leader; Chuikov. who led the 62nd Russian Army at Stalingrad; Popov, Kolpakchi, Tsvetayev-moved their men forward...