World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Time Is Now

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This week the clock struck. The time for Hitler's great attempt to crush Russia had come.

For Hitler has no second year in which to conquer Russia. He has at most four months, perhaps only three, in which Russia must be conquered or the war will be lost to Germany. From his standpoint, Russia must be liquidated as an enemy before the U.S. can throw its real weight into the war. Hitler must beat Russia in time to allow the German war machine to turn and meet the enemy in the West....