Word: dresdeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atomization. Sunny, springlike weather enabled the U.S. and British strategic air forces to throw their full weight against the enemy. In 13 days 19,000 heavy bombers were over German territory, blasting and burning. One of the first targets was Saxony's handsome capital, Dresden, a main feeder point for the Silesian front...
Another Konev column plunged nearer to Dresden. Still another surged up the Autobahn toward Berlin's southern gates, in a drive aimed through the Cottbus rail center. Hard fighting raged inside the walled, medieval town of Guben, communications center 65 miles southeast of the Reich's capital. Great clouds of smoke, rising from fires set by British and American airmen, beckoned them...
Konev had plunged into the second phase of his offensive, had widened his front west of the Oder to 100 miles. He had broken across the Breslau-Berlin Autobahn, stood within 75 miles of Dresden. Konev matched his power with daring. In a snowstorm naked troops had plunged into the icy Oder, had pushed ahead of them doors, benches, barrels, anything that would float and keep uniforms and weapons dry. Many a Russian died with his boots off, but many more got across...
...damage done to the deceptively lifelike reproductions can never be repaired, for with the death of Rudolph Blaschka in 1936 passed the secret of their creation. Leopold Blaschka, founder of the remarkable process, allowed no one but his son to enter their Dresden workshop and never permitted his method to be put on paper...
...Correspondent John Scott cabled: "Serious armed clashes between SS domestic troops and armament workers have occurred in Germany during the past six weeks. Troops have tried to prevent workers from going to air-raid shelters on the approach of enemy planes. There have been several hundred casualities, notably in Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin and Osnabrück. But the importance of these clashes should not be overestimated. There will have to be many more shootings and casualties before disaffection spells the Government's collapse...