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...Maikop, the only oil center they had captured. They also lost a controlling point (Tikhoretsk) on the rail line connecting Rostov with the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, the Germans' only alternate way of retreat from the Caucasus, and that alternative was itself being threatened near Krasnodar. The Stalingrad area had been almost cleared (see below), releasing troops and freeing rail lines for the Rostov battles...
...Stalingrad was a graveyard for 100,000 of the Herrenvolk's fresh, young sons, The Caucasian oilfields of Maikop were lost. Along the Eastern Front, along the North African coast, the Fuhrer's hurt and weary armies were in retreat...
This week the battle of Stalingrad-perhaps the most decisive in the Russo-German war, if not in all of World War II-approached its end. The Red Army had killed or captured most of the German and Rumanian troops that had been hammering the city since last August. In the final stages even the Nazi Commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, surrendered along with 16 other generals...
...meant the complete failure of Hitler's 1942 strategy in Russia: to outflank Moscow from the south, render the Volga lifeline useless to the Russians and secure the German flank driving through the Caucasus toward Baku and the Middle East. It also meant that the Red Armies defending Stalingrad and the Volga were free to push west and join the armies smashing at Rostov and Kharkov...
...until last week did the Russians reveal how nearly the German Sixth Army had come to capturing Stalingrad. In September the Germans actually occupied the central part of the city. Concentrating their power in the industrial districts, they then stormed into the Stalingrad tank factory, but failed to drive on to the Volga. Often the opposing lines were only 15 yards apart. Most of the fighting was done with hand grenades, one Russian division using more than 100,000 in a single month's fighting...