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Pause in the South. For the first time since the siege of Stalingrad was lifted, the Russians last week could report no sizable gains on their southern fronts. And this week they admitted a serious German effort to split their front between the Donets and the Dnieper Rivers-a front which had to be kept intact if the Red Army hoped to bear down heavily on the German salient in the Eastern Ukraine...
...celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Red Army: "The fact is that Fascist Germany is becoming more and more exhausted and weaker while the Soviet Union is more and more developing its reserves and becoming even stronger." Last October, when Allied military experts were declaring that Stalingrad was lost and Russian offensive power broken, Russians claimed they had in reserve 4,000,000 fully trained though not fully equipped men. They were prepared to throw this entire reserve into action the moment the Allies mounted a second front in Europe. When the Allies moved into North Africa, the Russians threw...
King George VI announced that a sword of honor was being struck for presentation to the "warrior city" of Stalingrad as a "token of the admiration not only of the British people but of the whole civilized world...
...their struggle to hold the Tunisian tip. While I have always hesitated to say anything which might afterwards look like overconfidence, I cannot resist the remark that one seems to discern in this policy the touch of a master hand, the same master hand that planned the attack on Stalingrad...
...After the Stalingrad defeat, Hitler's personal popularity for the first time spiraled downward with Nazi Party prestige. His promise of victory at Stalingrad was too recent and too wrong for even propaganda-hammered Germans to forget; Germans said that Hitler's appointment of reckless "Party Generals" assured the Stalingrad catastrophe...