Word: breslau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began to strike in force. All vital offices, said Stockholm, would be or were being transferred elsewhere, as far as they could get from the R.A.F. bombers. Most of them, it appeared, would be set up anew in eastern cities; the Foreign Office was known to be going to Breslau. The Propaganda Ministry alone seemed likely to remain, at least temporarily; its presence in the capital was important for morale...
...When the repatriates left their camps for Göteborg, 900 Canadians in a Stalag at Lamsdorf near Breslau still wore the chains with which they were shackled soon after Dieppe. One Canadian R.A.F. private said: "When the Nazis started to handcuff us the first time, we all lined up before twelve inexpert Nazis, doing twelve prisoners at a time. In the first dozen chained men there was an escape expert, a former London bobby, who quickly showed his companions how to remove the bracelets. They chucked them under a hut and rejoined the queue. The Nazis used...
Country by Country. The document signed by aged (84) Adolph Cardinal Bertram, Archbishop of Breslau, noted that in Alsace-Lorraine, where the populace received the Nazis "with great enthusiasm," there is now hatred of Germany...
...them on their own blood-dry soil. Since it took the German central Armies five great battles to get within field-glass view of Moscow, it was not likely that the Russians would now be able to surge in one unbroken wave to Stettin, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder and Breslau. This first happy plunge would necessarily wear itself out. Whether an other would succeed it was the crucial question...
Died. Colonel Werner Mölders, 28, German flying ace; in an air crash near Breslau...