Word: stalingraders
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...reduce Gorodok, the Red command used the new First Baltic Army, with its winter-trained Siberian regiments, which fought at Moscow, Stalingrad, the Don. It massed heavy artillery, tanks, planes. Then, in a heavy snowfall, the Siberians struck out from three directions...
...Germany from Moscow last week went a Christmas parcel wrapped in propaganda TNT. It was a big enough parcel to touch the hearts of 250,000 families bereaved by the debacle at Stalingrad. The card enclosed was signed by Lieut. General Walther von Seydlitz, a veteran of Stalingrad and now vice chairman of the Free German Committee...
Seydlitz had a story to tell: On Nov. 19, 1942 the Red trap was sprung on the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad. Its ambitious commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, at once asked Hitler's permission to fall back from the untenable positions on the windswept steppe. On Nov. 20, Hitler called an emergency conference at his headquarters, 1 ,400 miles away...
...best German divisions were ordered to form a hedgehog. Hitler alone is responsible for accepting the encirclement. He prevented an immediate possible break-through ... Goring supported Hitler with an irresponsible promise. Hitler and Goring must forever be haunted by the 250,000 dead German soldiers of Stalingrad...
...occasion he was merry: downing champagne, toasting Roosevelt and Churchill, charging around the dinner table to touch glasses with one and all. But Stalin showed real emotion only once: when Churchill presented the Stalingrad sword (sent as a gift from King George VI "to the steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad"). Stalin shivered almost imperceptibly, raised the sword to his lips and kissed the scabbard (see cut). President Roosevelt watched, deeply impressed. Others thought they saw "a little lump clumping in his throat." Almost inaudibly, Stalin thanked Churchill and the British...