SOME DESERTERS
FROM VOTH HOTH’S TRAPPED ARMY. IN SPITE OF HITLER'S THREATS. LONDON, January 9. A non-stop artillery barrage is being maintained inside the Stalingrad factory,belt and the Germans are steadily being ejected from buildings. Additional details of the plight of General von Hoth’s trapped forces show that they are threatened under Hitler's order, with death and reprisals against their families if they surrender. Some of the men are committing suicide. Prisoners report that the food is very scarce. Deserters are entering the Russian lines at night time. They state that officers tried to shoot them while they were escaping.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1943, Page 3
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100SOME DESERTERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1943, Page 3
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