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The contest
for Stalingrad was over. The airlift that Hitler had ordered to
assist his besieged forces failed. Some 147,200 German soldiers were
killed in the futile effort to occupy the city. Another 91,000
surrendered, including 24 generals. Berlin acknowledged its defeat
in this battle and announced that "the victims of this army, a
corps [in pursuit of] of a historic European goal, were not in
vain." Germany proclaimed three days of national mourning;
Soviet forces advanced on all fronts. |
