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Last week, on the first anniversary of the vast German debacle at Stalingrad, the Red Army stood 800 mi. west of that shell-battered city. It was now only 500 mi. from Berlin...
Pobeda III. At the open end of the Dnieper U, the Russians marked the Stalingrad anniversary with another encirclement of German forces. By sharp, converging 50-mile thrusts, the armies of Generals Vatutin and Ivan Konev had worked in behind one armored and nine infantry divisions-perhaps 100,000 men. Moscow reported that they were being rapidly liquidated...
...speed up the process, the Russians put Walther von Seidlitz, a German general captured at Stalingrad, before a microphone, authorized him to offer favorable terms of surrender. Said Seidlitz: ". . . you are faced with catastrophe. There is no more hope of relief. . . . [Germany] will be grateful for [your] capitulation and will recognize it as manly, honorable and soldierlike...
...defense, men who lacked one or more fingers or who had weak hearts were passed by the Army doctors. And women began taking the place of men even in barracks and police stations. After the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa, the retreat of Rommel and the disaster at Stalingrad, hope of victory had almost disappeared. Goebbels was forced to use the technique of killing one piece of bad news with another...
These men and these weapons thrice beat Manstein: at Stalingrad, Kursk, Zhitomir. But, thrice beaten, he still failed to understand the lesson. For understanding meant loss of hope and faith: the Slav commoner had negated the Junkers' wondrous Blitzkrieg...