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...street, Breslau was falling to Red Army assault teams. After more than a month of siege, the city's factories and vast areas around the central part of the town were tumbled ruins. But stubbornly, house by house, floor by floor, Germany's Lieut. General Hermann Niehoff battled to hold them...
Firm Backing. Still Niehoff fought on, his resolute face to his foe, his sensitive back to the implacable figure of Ernst Streckenbach, commanding the Nazi 55 Polizei Truppen in Breslau. The Nazis wanted this town held, to tie down the Soviet assault armies yet a few days more, to deny the Russians a good communications hub. They wanted Breslau held to raise the German spirit...
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