Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hammered down the resistance pockets the Germans had left in East Prussia and the Polish Corridor. They took the town of Brandenburg on the east and neared Braunsberg on the west sides of the pocket below Konigsberg. In twin battles to the west they fought for the ports of Danzig and Gdynia...
...Germans all hope was gone of a blow from the Pomeranian pocket to disrupt the Russian rear. The pocket was collapsing under the hammer blows of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's armies. The twelve-way rail junction of Stolp went down. The Russians ringed Danzig, hatchery of World War II and birthplace of Arthur Schopenhauer, No. 1 German pessimist of the last century (when the pessimism field was admittedly less crowded...
...German "hedgehog" strong points had been overrun, but many had stood as outposts for a possible Nazi counter-drive. Among them had been Poznan, Torun, Schneidernühl, Arnswalde, Grudziadz, Breslau. Of these pockets of resistance, only two still stood this week: Grudziadz (on the Polish Corridor approaches to Danzig) and Breslau-and both appeared doomed...
...Germans fought on, tried to break out in furious counterattacks. There was little future for them if they succeeded. The arm that enclosed them was an inner envelopment by this week. Rokossovsky had developed a similar encircling sweep, aimed at Danzig and the German Baltic coast...
None of this would be easy. There was every indication that the Germans would try to hold Königsberg, Elbing, Danzig, Gdynia from the Russians-as they were denying Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, Bordeaux to the Allies in the west...