Word: beuthen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ugly Dabrowa district of hilly southern Silesia, the Russians scored a vast victory this week. Beuthen, Katowice, Hindenburg, Gleiwitz, Sosnowiec-the complex of mining, refining, steelmaking, oil-synthesizing cities-were in Russian hands...
...Germans were staggered. It was a cruel blow. At Gleiwitz was a synthetic fuel plant that employed 38,000. It had been moved to "safe" Silesia from the air-vulnerable Ruhr. Near by was a great new engine works, also built far from the Allied bomber fields. At Beuthen was the biggest zinc mine in Europe. Out of Katowice had poured automobiles, chemicals, machine tools. Out of the basin had gone much of the coal for the industries and railroads of the eastern Reich and Czechoslovakia...