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Seydlitz had a story to tell: On Nov. 19, 1942 the Red trap was sprung on the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad. Its ambitious commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, at once asked Hitler's permission to fall back from the untenable positions on the windswept steppe. On Nov. 20, Hitler called an emergency conference at his headquarters, 1 ,400 miles away...
Strike. In Schenectady, N.Y., Arthur L. Stockmore investigated a third-floor trap door, found 84 quarts of pre-Prohibition whiskey in a secret room...
Finally the battered submarine, her engines straining, pulled out of the trap, still seaworthy. For more than an hour the two ships fought each other "like a couple of tomcats in the dark," the U-boat hurling torpedoes at the destroyer, the destroyer blazing away with her guns. At last, her superstructure shot away, the sub exploded and sank...
Tank spearheads drove through the city, and continued in pursuit. Behind them came the bulk of Vatutin's army, estimated at 300,000. German garrisons of some 150,000 men withdrew before the trap was sprung. In Moscow, the Red Army's newspaper Red Star said proudly: "History has not known such a swift operation...
From Kiev, General Vatutin's army could now plunge directly west into Poland, only 130 miles away. Or it could swerve southwest, to try to set yet another trap for the German forces in the southern Ukraine. The weather in the south was still favorable, the troops fresh, supply lines from the east presumably restored in the past six weeks...