On December 14, 1942, the American weekly The Time wrote about the transfer of Soviet troops to the counteroffensive at Stalingrad:"Germany is defeated in Russia, and this means that it loses the second world war ... From all this it is clear that in Stalingrad nearly 300 thousand German and Romanian soldiers practically got into the cauldron.
The encirclement, captivity or destruction of this army, together with the loss of positions of the Wehrmacht in southern Russia, will be a much greater catastrophe for Hitler than defeat in Libya "