Word: lubliners
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...platform of the railroad station of Lublin, in German Poland, teemed. On it stood a forlorn, broken spirited crowd who moved only when shoved. The people were utterly destitute. All they had for baggage was here a knapsack, there a handbag, sometimes just a cloth bundle. A few carried scraps of food for which they had no stomach. The most any had in cash was 300 marks ($120). Train after train pulled in, and passengers poured out like ashes from dump-trucks. The heavy crowd became unmanageable. Finally the stationmaster blustered out, ordered that not one more passenger should alight...
...Jewish reservation will be set up around Lublin to "solve the Jewish problem...
...their lands, livestock and personal belongings are being divided among the peasantry." Reported seized near Krzemieniec was one of Poland's greatest landlords, Prince Janusz Radziwill, president of the Polish Red Cross and head of one of the four most ancient and historic families in Poland. Captured near Lublin was a remote cousin of the former King of Spain, Prince Gabriel de Bourbon-Siciles. Meanwhile, his brother-in-law, Prince Andrzej Lubomirski, son of the first Polish Minister to the U. S., managed to escape to Rumania, as did scores of other landed bigwigs. Said...
...armies to fall back from the Corridor and East Prussia to a primary defense line from Loruń south through Lódź and Kielce to Cracow, and after that to the angle between the Bug and Vistula Rivers in the north and the Industrial Triangle (Cracow to Lublin to Lwow) in the south, was the strategy approved for Marshal Smigly-Rydz by his Allied military advisers (see map, p. 16). He need endanger only 15 Polish divisions by this plan, holding 45 in reserve to smite the Germans after their supply lines and communications were extended...
While the battle for Warsaw took form, in the south the German columns smashed on westward toward Lublin and toward Przemysl on the San River, gateway through the hills toward Lwow. Slovakian columns, too, came out of the border mountains to threaten Lwow, for through that city ran Poland's one remaining lifeline; the road and railroad to Rumania...