Word: stalingraders
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...Mediterranean which identified Lord Gort as Governor of Malta). Sometimes it is a flag or a national emblem. Sometimes it is a realistic scene (like the charging tanks behind Britain's General Montgomery) or an allegorical scene (like the Volga running red behind Field Marshal Bock, attacker of Stalingrad). When we put "Hangman" Heydrich on the cover, we planned to put just one noose in the background, but the artist had so much fun drawing its intricacies that he kept right on tying knots until there were ropes enough for 22 executions. And the only reason I can find...
Having won the first round by surprise, the Russians pressed their advantages. Sticking to the roads, they pushed through to the northwest of Kursk, and moved into positions to the northeast and southeast. Planes dropped pamphlets showing pictures of the captured Field Marshal von Paulus at Stalingrad and describing the slow strangulation there. The three groups attacked concentrically. Kursk fell so fast that even the Russians must have been surprised...
...escape via Rostov. There were reports of the Red Fleet's harrying boatloads of Germans fleeing across the narrow (3 mi.) Kerch Straits to the Axis-held Crimea. The most the Nazis could hope for was a Dunkirk, but it seemed more likely that they would suffer another Stalingrad...
...atmosphere of disaster blanketed the Reich last week. The Nazis decreed three days of mourning for the 330,000 German soldiers who had fought and lost at Stalingrad. Through press and radio the Germans were barraged with exhortations to put forth their greatest effort to hold back the danger from the east. In London and Washington Allied leaders cautioned their people against taking the signs from the Reich as too hopeful indications of an early collapse. But signs were there...
Mourning. At home, German citizens tore the newspapers from the vendors' hands. In the black type they read the unbelievable story: "Fighting at Stalingrad has ceased." With bowed heads they heard it read over the radio, not to the blare of the Nazi Horst Wessel march, but to the strains of the tragic old German folk song: Ich Hatt' Einen Kameraden (I Had A Comrade). They did not know that some 115,000 officers and men had laid down their arms. But they knew that Stalingrad had been lost, and that it was one of the worst defeats...