Word: lubliner
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...course of all my travels into liberated territory I have never seen a more abominable sight than Maiden, near Lublin, Hitler's notorious Vernichtungslager [extermination camp] where more than half a million European men, women and children were massacred. . . .* This was not a concentration camp; it was a gigantic murder plant...
...Kremlin smiled & smiled as the little men in Moscow's old Polish Embassy talked & talked. For two days the Poles from Lublin* called the 1935 constitution fascist, demanded that the London Poles repudiate it, accept the constitution of 1921. For two days the six Poles from London defended the 1935 constitution as the legal basis of their government. If they repudiated it, they would repudiate themselves...
...second day talk stopped. Off to the plane for Cairo and London dashed Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and his three colleagues. Off to the plane for Lublin dashed the chairman of the Polish Committee for Liberation, Edward Osubka-Morawski, and Boleslaw Berut, president of the National Council (the Moscow-sponsored Polish underground parliament), who in the course of the Moscow negotiations turned out to be the real power among the Lublin Poles...
Poles in London were officially cheerful, unofficially gloomy. They thought they understood the Soviet game: as fast as the London Poles yielded a point, the Russians, through the Lublin Poles, would raise another. But the talks would not break down despite Mikolajczyk's flight to Britain-at least not until after the Russians were well into Germany...
...south Poland that the German disintegration was most apparent. Here the Germans had feared the first and heaviest Red blows. Yet here they crumbled as abjectly as everywhere else. Lublin was reached in a giant stride covering 50 miles in two days. This week it fell...