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The article features the captured war materials like aircraft by the forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, particularly the warplanes by the German forces.

Reports on the effect of Soviet offensive on the German conduct of war during the Second World War. Report that Soviet offensive has brought about the severest crisis in the German strategy; View that this offensive has revealed the material might of the Red Army; Report that since the beginning of the offensive the Red Army has had a definite preponderance in infantry and artillery, and probably in tanks as well; Information on the Russian strategic planning; Aspects of the German crisis in the Russian war; View that the Nazis has had to pay dearly for their strategy of ruthless territorial conquest by a crisis in supply and a diminishing of its offensive power; Conclusion that the coalition strategy of the Allies for 1943 will assume the character of a combined Soviet-Anglo-American offensive.

While asking for a second front that would bring about the withdrawal of 60 German divisions from the eastern front, the Russians have been engaged in pushing westward the entire German army of some 200 divisions at about as rapid a rate as could possibly have been achieved by any Anglo-American action. Having completely smashed the German lines in the Donbas and in the sector halfway between Kursk and Kiev, the Red Army has moved forward with unprecedented speed. Advances as great as twenty miles in a single day have been reported.

The article presents a history of the defeat of the Soviet Union's 2nd Shock Army or the Vtoraya Udarnaya Armiya by the German forces during World War II. Designed to instigate key offensives, it was composed of one rifle division and eight brigades, about 100,000 men in total. It met its end a year after German führer Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg attack on the Soviet Union, in an encirclement that saw several men die of starvation, aside from fighting and bombardment.

The article reports that Soviet horsemen, taking a page from J. E. B. Stuart, proved that the cavalry was still a potent fighting force, even against the German blitzkrieg in World War II. To Russian military thinkers, the cavalry raids of the U.S. Civil War had affirmed the importance of the deep strike, and their example informed Russian doctrine for decades afterward. Journalist Walter Kerr was astonished to hear from Soviet troopers that their idea of a perfect cavalryman was Stuart.

Narrates the surrender of the German Armed Forces to the Allied Expeditionary Force and the Soviet High Command on May 8, 1945. Terms and conditions of the surrender; Celebration in New York upon hearing the news; Reaction of the U.S. Armed Forces fighting the Japanese on the news.

Interviews Hans Jennewein, a mountain troop member in Germany, regarding his experiences during the battle in Hungary in 1944. Personal information of Jennewein; Experience of Jennewein during a Russian attack; Highlights of Jennewein's celebration of Christmas during the war; Result of the battle.

Presents information on the battles of the Red Army corps and German forces in Hungary during World War II. Military background of Rodion Malinovsky and Maximilian Fretter-Pico; Impact of defectors to German offensive; Malinovsky's attack on Cluj; Decisions made by Malinovsky; Political events in Hungary; Plans by Germans to counter the Soviets advancement; Statistics from Germans on the Group Pliyev; Importance of battles around Debrecen and Nyiregyhaza.

Reports on how Russian Marshal Ivan Koniev's Red armies trapped and slaughtered ten German divisions in Ukraine. Description of the Ukrainian landscape; Number of German prisoners who surrendered to the Red armies; Highlights of the confrontations between the Red armies and the Nazi 8th army.

Presents information on recent developments related to the World War II. Strategy adopted by the German high command in the world war; Information that the high command's original defense against the Soviet attack was broken by the unexpected vigor of the onslaught; Claim that the high command is preparing a new series of battles which will probably sooner or later be featured by a counter-attack; Problems before the Soviet Union general, of getting his own infantry formations up for the struggle.

Focuses on various aspects of the full-fledged Russo-German war. Offensive and active defense plan of the German and the Red Army respectively; Balance of power between German and Russian armies; German strategy of the battle of annihilation during the war; Improvisation of the remedy of the use of infantry and artillery as anti-tank troops by the Russians; Report that Russian strategic reserves were thrown in so swiftly and efficiently that they were able to restore a continuous front and parry the crucial German attack over a semicircle around Moscow, Russia; Report that the second battle of Moscow, begun late in November, was waged with weakened offensive power; Victory of the Russians in the battle of the south; Report that at present, the fighting strength of the Red Army is higher than at the outbreak of the war and the offensive power of the Germans is apparently below that of their supreme effort in mid-October; Advantages of the German army of having large territorial gains; Risks for the German army, of an exposed position deep in the enemy country.

Focuses on the strategy of the Soviet Union in the Russo-German War. Prediction that German strategic methodology will comprise the rapid destruction of the enemy army as in earlier campaigns; Requirement of counter-measures against German military bases in East Prussia, Poland and Rumania; Suggestion for field fortifications in the recently acquired Russian territories to gain time for completing Russian concentrations; Suggestion to retire to the permanent defense lines lying along the old Russo-Polish border to a depth of fifty to one hundred miles, to the west of the line Kiev-Vitebsk; Comparison of the military capabilities of the Soviet Red Army and the German Wehrmacht.

The article offers the information on the aerial photographs of western Ukraine in 1941 taken by the German air force pilots to help Nazi Germany defeat the Soviet Union in a war that saw the genocide of several million Jews.

Presents quotes from several publications on various socio-political issues. Definition of foreigner by Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge; Tension between the labor union and the service department of Ford Motor Co. operated by executive Harry Bennett; Bill on blood tests of applicants for marriage licenses; Bomb attack by Germans at the Libyan Coast; Information on German soldiers' lustful eye on Hollywood in Los Angeles, California; Terror tactics by Germany's motorcycle troops riding wildly into the Soviet Union's lines.

Some time will pass before one know what actually took place on the Russian front in these past weeks of World War II. It is still unsure if the Germans were defeated again and again in a gigantic series of battles or if they voluntarily carried out a just as gigantic continuous retreat. Meanwhile one fact is certain — all during this time the situation has been described to the German public in a way that is without precedent. It has never been said that the retreat would soon be stopped, not even the hope that it would be has ever been expressed.