Word: danzig
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...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...
...Germans, drowning hundreds hiding out. Ten days after the Nazi capital's surrender, bodies were still rotting in the streets. The northern pockets which had been holding out behind Russian lines were quickly swabbed out. On the Courland peninsula in Latvia some 190,000 Germans were taken. Around Danzig, Gdynia...
...east bank of the Rhine. This time the Germans felt the false hopes of abortive offensives, Atlantic Walls and secret weapons-and still hollower feelings after the fall of Tunis, Sicily, Naples, Rome; Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Bucharest; Paris, Marseilles, Antwerp; Riga, Sofia, Warsaw, Budapest; Aachen and Cracow; Frankfurt and Danzig; Essen and Vienna; Magdeburg and Nürenberg; Bremen, Milan, Munich, Berlin...
Marshal Alexander M. Vasilevsky cleaned up the largest of the East Prussian pockets and drove with four armies on Königsberg. Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky took Danzig, first city to fall to the Germans on the first day of World War II. Other Russian troops stormed into Gdynia and found 9,000 dispirited Germans lined up on the docks, waiting to be evacuated on ships that never came...
...east Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky split land communications between Danzig and Gdynia and was closing a double set of prongs on the two cities. Farther east Marshal Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky, 47-year-old Cossack, took Braunsberg, one-time stronghold of the Teutonic Knights...