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Word: dabrowa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: EASTERN FRONT: Staggering Blow | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

Over the River. While Konev was spearing into the Dabrowa, he had also fanned out northward, bypassed and besieged Breslau, spread his tanks along the upper "Rhine of the East." By this week (by German account) he was across it at more than a dozen places. One crossing was reported 50 miles northwest of Breslau. At this point he was within 125 miles of Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: EASTERN FRONT: Staggering Blow | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

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