First revealed in The Sydney Morning Herald on February 2, 1943
DETAILS OF GREAT GERMAN MILITARY DISASTER
LONDON, Feb. 1 (A.A.P.).
The most recent official particulars of the good German army catastrophe at Stalingrad got in a particular announcement made in Moscow final night time.
Civilians return to the ruins of Stalingrad.Credit score:United States Workplace of Struggle Data
The particular announcement mentioned: “The Russians between January 27 and January 31 accomplished the annihilation of the Germans who have been surrounded west of central Stalingrad.
“In the midst of the combating, and from the depositions of captured enemy generals, we ascertained that the German forces encircled on November 23 numbered at the very least 330,000, together with auxiliaries and engineering and police units-not 220,000 as beforehand reported.
“It’s identified that the encircled forces between November 23 and January 10 (when the ultimate offensive in opposition to them was begun) misplaced 140,000 males from artillery and aerial bombardment, from assaults by our floor troops, and from illness, frost, and exhaustion.
“Consequently, when the Russians launched their last offensive on January 10 the encircled troops numbered 190,000. This was confirmed by the captured Colonel von Kubovsky, Quartermaster-Common of the Sixth Military, who acknowledged that the encircled efficient troops, together with non-combatants, numbered 195,000.
“In view of this information, the Russian victory in entrance of Stalingrad assumes even better significance.
“TASK COMPLETED”
To-day’s Berlin communique says: “At Stalingrad, the southern group of the Sixth Military below Area-Marshal Paulus, after two months of heroic combating, has accomplished its process. The northern group remains to be actively defending itself.
“At different focal factors on the jap entrance heavy combating proceeds.
