Word: breslau
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...bill. What Poland lost to the Russians was about half again as large in area as what she got from the Germans. But the new Polish territory ripped from Germany, stretching to within 35 miles of Berlin, included coal and iron in German Silesia, the transportation centers of Breslau and Küstrin and some 200 miles of Baltic seacoast, with the great port of Danzig and Berlin's seaport, Stettin. In industrial value, at least, Poland was the gainer; what Russia had taken from her was largely agricultural...
Died. Adolf Cardinal Bertram, 86, outspoken anti-Nazi Archbishop of Breslau and dean of the German Catholic hierarchy, whose tireless resistance to Hitler's "neopaganism" was climaxed last March in his defiance of orders to evacuate Breslau before the advancing Russians; presumably in Breslau. His death left the College of Cardinals with 40 members-fewest in 144 years...
...least one crystal ball is unclouded. Herman Finer, visiting lecturer on Government, predicted in June, 1944, shortly after D-Day, that the war in Europe would end when the Russian armies had taken Breslau, in German Silesia. Last January he weakened his prediction by saying that Breslau would fall late in February...
After that, everybody forgot all about the cracle from the London School of Economics. But his original prediction turned out to be true, if not in quite the way Finer had expected. The Russians by-passed Breslau, and it didn't finally end its resistance until...
...Breslau came the propaganda stories: a 4,000,000 Reichsmark collection for the Nazi Winter Help fund, as if millions mattered now; a ceremony to mark the 132nd anniversary of the founding of the Order of the Iron Cross, as if Breslau's cross was not heavier than iron. But shrilly Joseph Goebbels praised Breslau, and perhaps someone in distracted, fear-filled Germany paid heed...