Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front from the Baltic to Yugoslavia, Guderian conferred in Königsberg (according to the Soviet news agency Tass) with fat Hermann Göring, who had a personal reason for fury. The Russians had seized Göring's favorite hunting lodge in the East Prussian deer forest of Rominter Heide, after scattering the SS regiment on guard there. They found the lodge's wine cellar well stocked with French champagne, the study table piled with topographical maps annotated in handwriting believed to be Göring's own. A meal prepared in the kitchen...
Beyond was the first big town in East Prussia, Gumbinnen, scene of the first World War I battle between Germans and Russians. Chernyakhovsky's left wing skirted the Rominter Heide, a deer forest once held sacred to Kaiser Wilhelm's royal hunting, captured Goldap 18 miles inside Germany...
...Bloody Circuit. When Soviet plays have gone on the road for the last three years they have gone straight to war. The Red Army Theater, which is typical, has sent 18 "front brigades" to entertain troops. They play in trenches, in forest clearings, in sheds and blockhouses. There have been many casualties: one whole brigade was cut off by the Germans while acting and never heard from again. One troupe worked for seven months without a change of clothes. One group was playing in a shed to 65 Tommy gunners; in a corner was the command post, at which...
...this week the Germans' hard crust had been definitely broken where Hodges' smashes north of Aachen had sunk in past Ubach and Beggendorf (see map). The crust south and east of Aachen (which was in peril of encirclement) showed signs of breaking in the Hürtgen forest area...
Last week the Allied world heard Nazi plans for going underground, reports of secret training for underground Nazis, secret hideouts in the Black Forest and Bavaria, bold schemes to whisk Belgium's King Leopold, Stalin's son Jacob and other distinguished prisoners of the Germans to Japan by submarine. There they would be held as hostages in case Allied threats to bring Nazi war criminals to trial meant business. Behind these schemes stirred the shadow of the Feme, once more emerging from the twilight...