Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less indulgent to other civilians, the Nazi authorities forbade them to enter or leave the province without permits, put some to work on fortifications. Nevertheless, refugees-some of whom streamed in from the Baltic countries-crowded railway stations and blocked roads to the west, not bothering with identification papers or ration cards...
Earlier, when he snuffed out the last enemy resistance in Vilna, Chernyakovsky had won Moscow's maximum victory salute: 24 rounds from 324 guns. The Germans had desperately wanted to hold Vilna, not only to keep open the exit gate from the Baltic areas, but as a shield for East Prussia. They held out longer there under attack than anywhere else in this offensive-but only for five days. Even after the city was completely surrounded, the Germans reinforced their garrison by dropping paratroopers...
...they had known their defenses would collapse like a framework of overstrained girders at the touch of a cutting torch, why had they not pulled clear out of the Baltic countries and eastern Poland, to a shortened line from Konigsberg through Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk to Kovel...
...German film trust, hired the Professor to help produce a spaceship movie called The Girl in the Moon. As a publicity stunt for the movie's premiere, Oberth was to launch a tremendous rocket of his own design at a deserted spot on the Baltic coast. The rocket failed to go off and the humiliated professor retired from public view...
...objective is Berlin. What they want to do in Finland is liquidate the war on this front, shorten their front by some 600 miles, free 30 to 50 divisions, drive the Germans from their North Cape positions (from which they are still seriously harassing Allied sea lanes), free their Baltic fleet to cut German communications to Norway and northern Finland. The Russians believe these aims can be achieved without the military occupation of Finland. But they believe that the present Finnish Government must...