Every German City a Stalingrad

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 205, 30 August 1944, Page 5

Every German City a Stalingrad

Received Tuesday, 9.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 29. Hitler laid plans last year to make every German city emulate Stalingrad, says the New York Times’ correspondent in Rome. The correspondent learned this from a German correspondent, considered the bestinformed of his colleagues, who remained behind when the Allies took Rome. Hitler summoned his European gauleiters last summer and told them that Germany was unable to stave off indefinitely the immensely superior Allied forceß. It was inevitable that the German armies would bo finally driven back to their home territory. Hitler asserted that that need not mean defeat if plans were laid with this retreat in view and every German did his duty. The Fuhrer continued: “Every German city one by one will be defended as Stalingrad. That would give Germany such moral strength and such a great place in history that For a century no foreign Power would dare treat her as anything but an equal. Moreover, the United Nations would pay so high a price for victory that the rebirth of a new Nazism arifi a new and greater Reich was certain.”