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...German command had still another worry. Last week it told of a Red Army thrust toward Cracow on the long-dormant southern Poland front that points to the Reich's industries-rich Silesia, feared it might be the start of a winter offensive. As usual, the Russians gave no hints...
...left Cracow walking, carrying on a roll of microfilm 38 pages of plans and suggestions from the underground. His guide was worried, gloomy, reluctant. They slogged through the mud for three days. Karski could not go on, though the border of Hungary was only 15 miles away. They spent the night in a village. Karski was awakened by a gun butt mashed against his skull. He dropped his undeveloped microfilm into a barrel of water...
...Danube. From Bratislava the Red Army might divide into two forces. One could fight up the Danubian gateway to Germany through Vienna to Linz, Munich and Nürnberg. The other could follow the Moravian gateway to northern Czechoslovakia-the Bohemian bastion.* Other Russian forces now before Cracow could move in to join the Bohemian drive through the Oder...
...Chernyakhovsky's forces aimed at the East Prussian border; Rokossovsky's and Zakharov's forces aimed directly west toward Berlin, but could swing north to envelop East Prussia, or north and south to envelop Warsaw; Konev's huge bridgehead on the upper Vistula pointed at Cracow and German Silesia. Most of the surface activity last week was in the Balkans, but the great drive had passed from the explosive to the mopping-up stage. The noises from Berlin betrayed well-grounded anxiety about the sectors north of the Carpathians, the direct menace to German soil...
Lvov, the greatest rail city of southeastern Poland, was taken by wily, egg-bald Marshal Konev, commanding the First Ukrainian Army in place of Marshal Zhukov, who had gone to Moscow to be Stalin's deputy commander in chief. On the rail line to Cracow, Konev stormed Przemysl and Jaroslav. At Przemsyl he was 180 miles from the Silesian corner of Germany...