Word: liegnitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wiesbaden, Germany, a refugee from Silesia declared that she had been living next door to Adolf Hitler in Liegnitz- on President Roosevelt Strasse. (Skeptical military government officials said that it was Russia's problem.) "He has a triangular mustache now," said the woman, "and he grows sideburns ... He is living with a small, dark woman . . . He has formed a new party-the T.P.Z. I don't know what it stands...
...Berlin, guessed rightly that Marshal Ivan Konev would try to complete his envelopment of Breslau and widen his bridgeheads in the Steinau area. But they guessed wrong about Konev's power. When the blow came it was in huge force-enough to carry through Steinau and on to Liegnitz, 35 miles west of Breslau...
...same military academies-at Wahlstatt and Lichterfelde (oldtime Prussian West Point)-that turned out Germany's Hindenburg and Ludendorff. From the age of twelve, in school and at home in Breslau, he was shaped strictly for membership in his father's regiment, the crack Seventh Grenadiers of Liegnitz, Silesia, whose honorary chiefs were the Kaiser and the Tsar. Schoolmates recall him as a witty wisecracker, gay, with a talent for dramatics. But he stuck to soldiering faithfully, gained his lieutenancy in time for World War I. By bravery at Longwy and the Meuse, by luck at Verdun...