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...defeat of the German Army was decided ... at the end of last year. ... The Battle of Stalingrad ended with the destruction of an army of 300,000 men. . . . At the end of the Stalingrad battle 147,210 officers and men v. ere picked up from the battlefield and buried. . . . After the Stalingrad slaughter the Germans were unable to recover...
...fighting at Kursk [last July] witnessed the destruction of the main forces. ... [It] was the last German attempt to materialize the so-called German offensive. The offensive ended in a complete fiasco. ... If Stalingrad was a defeat.. . Kursk was a catastrophe...
...Army had thus ended what was probably the toughest part of the offensive begun at Stalingrad a year ago. It had beaten the Wehrmacht in its prime, vaulted over two great river barriers (Donets, Dnieper), captured the strongest of the enemy's strongholds (Rostov, Kharkov, Orel, Bryansk, Smolensk, Melitopol, Kiev...
...City That Stopped Hitler-Heroic Stalingrad (TIME...
Melitopol. Two weeks ago another force, under rotund and brilliant Colonel General Fedor Tolbukhin, increased pressure on Melitopol. Himself a veteran of Stalingrad, Tolbukhin had under him many a Stalingrad veteran-tough and fire-tested. To these men, fate seemed kind, for in Melitopol there were Germans they hated most: units of the Sixth Army, destroyed at Stalingrad and now resurrected with new blood; the Seventeenth Army, responsible for atrocities in the Caucasus...