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...capacity to consume the 380,000 Jews Eichmann shipped in from Hungary. On Oct. 18, 1944, the gassing stopped because the Russians had pushed the battle line too close. In January, Baer ordered the camp's surviving 64,000 inmates to march to the Gross-Rosen camp near Breslau. Hundreds of prisoners died of exposure or were shot by guards when they fell by the way. Baer skipped ahead to Gross-Rosen; then, as the Russians surged on Berlin, he submerged himself in the refugee tide flowing west and found his way under an assumed name to his forest...
Along the waterfront of Poland's rubble-strewn Szczecin (formerly Stettin) towering cranes on six miles of rebuilt docks load and unload freight at the annual rate of 4,000,000 tons. In Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) bright new arc lights along the main streets have ended years of dim nights in the city's bomb-shattered center. After years of neglect, Poland's "western territories," the lands east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers taken from Germany after the war, are slowly emerging from postwar desolation...
...Poland and thus abandoning Germany's "lost territories" to the East. It was the Chancellor's clinching argument, and a specifically German one, which had less appeal outside (the London Economist commented icily that the West "will still fight for Berlin but it will not fight for Breslau...
Catholic University of America's Breslau-born Anthropologist Martin Gusinde, 70, longtime friend of and leading authority on the world's pygmies. In 1934 Father Gusinde took up residence in the jungles of Central Africa in a community of Bambute pygmies about whom almost nothing was known. "From that time," says he, "I was in love with my pygmies." He decided that the Hottentots and Bushmen of South Africa are not true pygmies (they are too tall). He lived with the Aetas, pygmies of the Philippines, and the beetle-munching pygmies of North-East New Guinea...
Most of these mob scenes, organized or spontaneous, began as what one Pole called "demonstrations of happiness." But as they continued, their temper turned bitter. In Wroclaw (formerly the German Breslau) demonstrating students who started off shouting "Long live Poland" gradually progressed to "Tell the truth about the Katyn murders"* and a steady chant of "Rokossovsky, go home." ("What do they want from me?" lamented the dejected Soviet proconsul. "After all, I was born in Poland and my parents are buried here...