Word: oder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaullist deputy named Pierre Lebon, was in Warsaw. Among them: ex-Premier Daladier and Jacques Soustelle, a youngish (41) anthropologist who is one of De Gaulle's right-hand men. They had come, at Polish Communist invitation and in a Polish Communist plane, to see for themselves the Oder-Neisse Line, which separates Poland and East Germany. Their visit, of course, called attention to the fact that Germans of all non-Communist parties hope to regain the territory taken from them at Potsdam and given to Poland (as a sop for Poland's own losses to Russia...
More than 10 million Germans used to live east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers, most of them in the German territory turned over to Poland after World War II. Last week a study compiled by a five-man team of German social scientists for the West German Refugee Ministry told what had happened to them. ¶ 2,167,000 died-650,000 while fleeing before the Red army advance, 100,000 violently at the hands of the Red forces, another 100,000 as a result of forced deportation to the east by the Russians. ¶ 7,000,000 fled...
...Communist, he became their stooge, useful at keeping his fellow Roman Catholics in line. He was rewarded by a visit to Moscow for Stalin's birthday in 1950, a high Polish decoration only last month for having signed away to Poland all German territory east of the Oder-Neisse rivers, and a congratulatory telegram only a few weeks ago from Andrei Vishinsky...
...sovietized Bergmann-Borsig engineering works in East Berlin, Communist inspectors reported: "Working according to schedule is an extremely rare event . . . An average of ten substandard cylinder heads has been made for every one that was up to standard." At the huge Iron Works East at Furstenberg on the Oder, reporters from Neues Deutschland, official organ of the German Communist Party, found Foreman Horst Kewitsch angrily complaining: "Serious ... is the lack of replacement parts. To keep working, we have had to replace parts in Furnace Two with parts from Furnace Three; now, we have to replace the missing parts from Furnace...
...morning last August, Mieczyslaw, just past his 13th birthday, left home again. He carried an old briefcase containing a pair of sneakers, a box of matches and four pounds of bread. He had 200 zlotys ($50) in his pocket. He took a train to a town near the Oder, crossed the river on a ferry, and headed for the Polish-German border. He got lost in the forests, ate the last of his bread, dug potatoes out of a field and baked them. Near the border he found coils of barbed wire looped along the ground. He followed the wire...