MOSCOW--The Red Army has killed or captured all but 12,000 of the 220,000 German troops trapped before Stalingrad, and their liquidation in the last phase of the great battle of annihilation is a matter of two or three days, a communique said today.
The High Command, announcing virtual completion of the bloody conquest in the Stalingrad death pocket, said Russian assault forces had slaughtered 10,000 Germans.
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