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Over the Barriers. The Nida River was now an incident in the taking of ancient Cracow, Poland's fourth city and the gateway to southern Silesia and its complex of German industrial cities. At the Nida the Germans had worked six months to build an impassable barrier. Thousands of Yugoslav laborers had dug three lines of trenches on either side, protected by a string of strong points to the east. Marshal Ivan Konev made straight for these barriers, bypassed the strong points before the enemy had recovered from his breakthrough. Konev's advance forces crossed the formidable Nida...
...paused for a few seconds in a gateway to take pictures, and because of the noisy barrage was not aware that I was blocking the way for three Bren carriers until the driver of one tapped me politely on the shoulder and shouted: "Excuse me, mate-but there's a war on, yer know...
...rnberg and the Bastion. Ahead (see map) was the natural corridor be tween the Austrian Alps and the Carpathians to industrial Bratislava on the east bank of the Danube. From Bratislava the Red Army might divide into two forces. One could fight up the Danubian gateway to Germany through Vienna to Linz, Munich and Nürnberg. The other could follow the Moravian gateway to northern Czechoslovakia-the Bohemian bastion.* Other Russian forces now before Cracow could move in to join the Bohemian drive through the Oder...
...Germans insisted for three days that another Patton wedge had penetrated to Reims, 30 miles northeast of Chateau-Thierry, where battles raged again in the wheat fields. Only 50 miles north of Reims was Sedan, at the Ardennes gateway through which the Germans had plunged into France...
...beige-painted stone building which was once Isadora Duncan's Moscow home now has new tenants. The gold-lettered black plaque on the gateway reads: Council for Religious Affairs...