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22 - 4 - page. B o c k s offensive of July ds.Jrs. was almost 2 months late, partly due to the exhaustion of the German army last winter, partly because of the disputes between Hitler, Göring and the generals, whether the offensive should be started at all, considering that it will cost too much human life and material, and whether one should not immediately move to the defensive war in the east in the somner l942 and whether preparations should not start immediately against the 2nd front in the nest. Göring and a number of generals opposed this year's offensive in Russia. These inconsistencies broke out anew in a new form at a meeting of the War Council on 9 August 19942 in Berlin. There, Hitler and the Generals H al d e r and v. Bock entered into a dispute over the conduct of the operations in Russia . He wanted Stalingrad to be taken within a week, i.e. until 15.8, and that the stabilization of the Eastern Front for the war of defense should be started immediately. The generals considered things differently, and sd is the result of all these deliberations, plans and quarrels for Hitler a pitiful one. The heroic Red Army will hold Stalingrad for almost three months; further German preparations and military operations will fail completely; leading Nazis announce that Germany will have to turn to defense and the Chief of Staff Halder and General von Bock have disappeared in the sinking. Göring then announces in his speech to all that - if not every officer, whether it be a general himself, obeys - he would be shot. This image of today's Germany ends with fearful hatred, contempt, feelings of anger and injustice, which today, throughout continental Europe and the whole world, including an important part of the Italians, Romanians, Ungam Bulgarians and Neutrals, are not excluded from the Germans! Think of how these feelings will develop in the given moment, as the epoch of Allied offensives is approaching. This development will now inevitably continue in the same direction, and until the consequences of this state become even more visible, you will hear new speeches by Hitler, Göring and Goebbels. First they will begin to affirm, as Emperor Wilhelm II did in the Frih year 1918, that they never wanted this war