Word: volgas
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...Stalingrad front Bock was at a disadvantage in transportation. Railways networked behind the Russian lines and the mighty Volga gave the Red army much better access to supplies. But the weight of men & materials was on BOCK'S side. The prize, a chance to slash across the Volga, was worthy of his bloodiest efforts. More important to Russia than the Mississippi is to the U.S.. the Volga on its broad back carries the steel, oil. ore. tanks, guns and food of a vast chain of industrial cities stretching from its headwaters, between Leningrad and Moscow, to the salty...
Once across the Volga, Bock's armies could well rest, counting 1942 a year of victory. The way would be clear for Germany to strike another body blow at battered Russia, perhaps in the far north against supply lines from across the seas, perhaps at Moscow, where proud Fedor von Bock has a haunting defeat to sponge from his Prussian escutcheon...
...garrulous, gravel-cheeked woman of enormous appetites had a hand in Russia's afflictions. If Catherine the Great (1729-96) had not urged Germans to colonize her Tartar-ravaged Volga lands, there might have been no islands of Germanic peoples pocking the lower Volga-Don region, hard behind the present battle line...
...Russian accounts did not identify them as part of the Germanic minority, but German-Russians. who have preserved their language and national customs, undoubtedly would be the best Nazi bet for stirring up trouble. More than 400,000 lived in the region which until last autumn was the German Volga Autonomous Republic, just north of Stalingrad. Many of them had been removed (TIME, Sept. 15) to prevent behind-the-lines treachery...
...Stalingrad was never a holiday city. We always knew how noisily this industrial heart of the Volga pounded. Now, in wartime, the city has many concerns. Every man does the work of three. Almost every enterprise works for the front and. in fact, is on the front...