Word: lubliners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...
...Germans announced that they had evacuated Kovel, that Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov's armies had advanced to the Bug River, between Kovel and Lublin, had thus penetrated "the Government General of Poland" (i.e., crossed the Russian-German, partition line of 1939). It was here, on the southern Polish plains, that the Germans had feared the heaviest Rus sian blows...
...Near Lublin, Poland, guerrillas killed Franz Wald, local Gestapo chief, and four of his men. A fortnight ago another Gestapo chief, "Little Butcher'' Erich Guttart, had been killed in the same district. The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich two months ago had started an epidemic...
Aboard each were more than 1,000 Jews bound for limbo-the new barbed-wire ghetto near Lublin in Poland. Elsewhere sealed trains crossed the border with more Jews (mostly very old and very young) for the starved concentration camps of unoccupied France. From Vienna alone the Nazis promised to dump five to twelve more trainloads a month. Hitler's final solution to his problem in subtraction is zero-to be reached, according to the most sanguine reports from Germany, in just six more weeks...