The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.Collection: Receiving
Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.Collection: Gun
When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste.Collection: Taken
The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.Collection: War