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...Moscow dispatches noted two significant facts: 1) as of last week, the Germans held two positions on the Volga-the chief aim of their drive for Stalingrad; 2) of the 22 Axis divisions caught in and near the city, 20 were German divisions; only two were Rumanian...
...victory was not won, and the Russians in their second winter of war knew it better than most. The Germans at Stalingrad were surrounded (see map), but they were not yet defeated. What the Red Army had won, but had yet to exploit, were positions and advantages which may eventually doom the Wehrmacht. Said Moscow Author Ilya Ehrenburg, preparing the Russian people for greater struggles...
Doom in the South? At Stalingrad a Red Army correspondent found Russian soldiers walking abroad in the winter daylight, out of their subterranean shelters, commanding whole blocks of shattered buildings and recaptured streets where no German bullets flew. Now, he said, it was the encircled Germans who burrowed into cellars, turned into "bearded beasts" and subsisted on short rations of horse meat. Now it was the Germans who were pressed between Red troops on every side, as the Russians had been pressed between the Germans and the Volga...
...southern offensive, were Rumanian and Italian. At some points of the Russians' first advances, satellite troops outnumbered the Germans 5-to-2. This probably explained the bag of 137,650 prisoners-the first such claims ever made by the Red Army. Cracking the 20 all-German divisions at Stalingrad will be a tougher task...
...chill and windy Kalmuck steppes south of Stalingrad, where the Russians had narrowly repulsed a German counteroffensive, the Red Army still advanced last week. It drove down the Stalingrad-Caucasus railway, took the Germans' strong defense-point at Kotelnikov, and rolled on southward. The Russians said that these operations, like those on the Middle Don and northwest of Stalingrad, were part of the great plan to defeat the Germans on the Volga. The accompanying threat to other German armies in the Caucasus was real enough, but by Moscow's own account it was a future threat...