WINTER CAMPAIGN
HITLER’S ORDERS LONG EASTERN FRONT FUR COATS WANTED (Reed. Aug. 11, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 9. News has leaked out from Berlin through foreign military attaches that Herr Hitler has ordered his generals to prepare for a winter campaign in Russia, says the Sunday express. The new time-table calls for the capture of Leningrad, Moscow and tfte Caucasus before October. It is pow realised that even such a spectacular advance might fail to break the Red Army. Therefore Hitler plans to settle down for the winter on a defensive line running from Lake Ladoga along the west bank of the Volga to Astrakhan. Five million fur coats are being collected throughout Europe to protect soldiers against the Russian blizzards Turkey will be asked to permit the passage of German troops in October fob a , campaign against the British in the Middle East.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20630, 11 August 1941, Page 5
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