Growth and Decline
Of Hitler Germany
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Ralr knocked out. partly recaptured; Reds roll back Germans.
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Russia bore a major share in
defeating the Germans.
The statistics of the conflict in
tlio east make that clear, but
Prime Minister Churchill repeat
edly has noted the fact and has
credited the Russians with "rip
ping the guts out of the German
army."
The war In the east was a bat
tle of giants. It was a battle of
vast armies, vast distances, and
lightning sweeps. There they
fought the battle of Stalingrad,
one of -the decisive battles of the
world where- Adolf Hitler's for
tunes reached their high-water
mark
There, after Hitler signed his
death warrant on the June morn
ing when his gray-clad legions
surged into Russia, the cities of
Moscow and Leningrad stood and
fought and won, and helped to set
the allies on the road to victory.
Germany, Italy and Romania
declared war on Russia in June,
ISM. German troops crossed the
old Russian border on the first
sweep of the long march that was
to lead them to the very gates of
Moscow and which drove the Rus
sians back 800 miles to Stalingrad
before the red army was able to
mount a counter-attack.
Huge forces of well-trained,
well-equipped Russian troops
struck back savagely in the aut
umn of 1942.
Red columns struck from both
north and south to' outflank the
German 6th army before and
within Stalingrad. Other red army
troops swung around the Invaders
on the plains and in the Caucasus,
putting steel clamps about the en
circled foe.
Stalingrad was saved and the
Germans lost the major part of
22 divisions which had comprised
tne attacking forces in that sector.
Other Soviet armies had opened
another offensive from Voronezh,
while up before Moscow, other
red offensives completed the
counter-move that set the Ger
mans back on a 1,000-mile front.
Russian spring thaws by this
time had called a halt to any at
tempts at mobile warfare and
both sides spent the intervening
time in preparing for the gigantic
blows that were to follow, but the
Germans were now on the defen
sive and the Russians had blocked
the best effoYts of the invader.
Throughout 1943 and 1944 the
Russians fought a terrible battle
of attrition with the seemingly
enniess Hordes of Germans that
Hitler poured Into the battle, but
always the red army pushed the
Hitlerites back. The dead mount
ed on the steppes and the Rus
sians continued to drive forward.
Prime Minister Stalin met with
President Roosevelt and Churchill
at Teheran for a war-planning
conference, the Russians poured
over the old Polish border on their
counter-offensive, and then in
vaded Romania in a great south
ern drive that kept the Germans
off balance.
By the spring of 1944, the red
army had captured Odessa, cap
tured Sevastopol, and had ended
all German offensives In Russia,
Poland and the Crimea.
Russia's western allies struck
the other half of the twin sledge
hammer blows in June when
troops landed on the Normandy
coast and advanced through the
Cherbourg peninsula in the great
est amphibious operation In his
tory. ,
Russia knocked Finland out of
the war, Invaded Hungary from
Romania and Stalin played host
to Prime Minister Churchill and
Anthony Eden to emphasize the
USSR's growing contribution to
the United Nations.
The "victory year" of 1945 open
ed with the eastern front ablaze
as the red army started the great
winter offensive with the capture
of Warsaw and Soviet troops
pushed ahead- to encircle East
Prussia and deal a vital blow to '
Germany's war production In the
upper Silcsian area.
The Russian drive continued
with the Invasion of Pomerania,
reached Germany's "last ditch" '
defense line, and then penetrated
the Oder line and left the bleed
ing heart of Germany the cap.
ltal of Berlin exposed to the red
soldier's bayonet. . .
Russian losses in- manpower
have been staggering, but the red
soldier has exacted a tremendous
toll from the wehrmacht.
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We can't stop now! We know that every effort, how
ever small, is important tb the winning of the final
peace. We are doing our best to continue to fight on
the home-front so that the boys on the battle front
can come home sooner.
There's another victory to be won ... but it cannot be
won without cooperation. We're doing all we can in
fighting harder, working harder, and conserving more
to hasten the day of complete victory.
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We've done a fine job so far, both on t he fighting fronts and at home.
But there is a lot more to be done. There are forty millions "Sons of
Heaven" to be taught a lesson!
Our fighting men will be going ahead fighting and dying. We'll
still have to be with them.
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