Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-20

the onion-shaped cupalos of Mos
cows Churches scant so miles
away.
That was the nadir of Soviet
defeat, the zenith of German VIC
tory. Two days later the snow
began to fall. The winter came
earlier than Hitler had expected.
He had his base-line established
I-Novgorod, Vitebsk, Orel, Kursk
and Kharkov-and all that was
needed was the last push into Mos
COW and the Ukraine for winter
quarters, warmth and food until
the spring thaws made possible a
completion of operations.
NAZI ARMIES FREEZE
But the snow fell and the frigid
winds blew and the Nazi armies
froze, froze in their tracks and
became grotesque white statues
sacrifices on the altar of a war
lord who had bungled as no other
general had bungled before.
This was Russia's moment. On
October %, the Soviet counter
attacks began.
The Russian marshals whose
very names now are legend-Timo-
Ishenko. Voroshilov. Zhukov and
Budenny-led their men into
combat.
Over the earth that had been
scorched so thoroughly before the
SHOWS fell they marched in end
less waves, hammering. hammer
ling. hammering. Riding tanks
and tractors and armored cars, on
great snow sleds pulled by me-
chanical monsters and on skis
they went steadily forward.
In temperatures of 80 degrees
below zero they were in their ele-
ment. The Germans, ill-equipped
for such weather simply because
Hitler felt so cocksure the cam
paign would be won before the
winter came. fell back. BY No
Ivember 20, the Russians had re-
captured Rostov. BY December 8
the German high command itself
was compelled 70 admit that the
offensive had beer. halted.
SIGNS DEATH WARRANT
And on December 81, Hitler
signed his own death warrant.
With the bizarre explanation
that ne was following his intui-
ton" ne peremptorily removed
Gen. Field Marshal Walther Won
IBrauchitsch as commander-ln-
chief of the German armies and
took over the post himself.
The little corporal who never
got above the post OF dispatch
rider in the last war became gen.
Ieralissino as well as head gang
ster and dictator.
Since that moment, the German
war in Russia has been an almost
unbroken succession of failures.
Throughout the desperately long
winter, the Nazi armies tried only
TO keep alive and hold the points
to which they had been hurled
back, while gestapo men ran
sacked the homes and apartments
of the Reich for wooden blankets
and warm clothes to shield them.
Many were the hausfrauen who
reluctantly handed over an ersatz
fur coat which later found itself
ldraped grotesquely over the
shoulders of a thinned-out Ba-
varian farm boy on the front.
THROW GERMANS BACK
In January the Russians recap
tured Mozhaisk and threw the
Germans back the way they had
come.
In March they launched their
spring offensives. long before Hit
Ter was prepared for large-scale
activities.
His sixteenth army was trapped
and annhilated at Staraya Russo.
Nazi counter-attacks on the
central front in April failed COM
pletely.
And in May, the Russians drove
for Kharkov in successful at
tempt to kill of a threatened new
German drive through the Ukraine.
The Nazi high command will not
admit this or any other failure, OF
course. But their only gains since
Hitler took command have been
on the Kerch Peninsula and at
Sevastopol, little enough in view OF
the tremendous numbers OF men,
tanks and planes that Hitler has
lost in opposing a Russia now
benefiting to a high degree from
Incorporation with the United
States against a common foe.
q. s. AID FLOWS IN
Lend-lease material is flowing
lin, and American pilots flying
American planes are fighting wing
to wing with airmen of the Red
air force.
The final chapter is now being
written. Hitler has made admis-
sion to his sorely tried people that
another winter of war in Russia
must be faced. and many believe
the Nazi Reich cannot survive.
Hitler. who betrayed the Rus
SLAMS. has been in turn betrayed
by his own intuition"