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Last spring Joachim, fleeing the Russians, was drowned in the Oder. On April 21 a blockbuster crumbled the Neumann house, killed eight-year-old Hans and 14-year-old Ursula...
...crossed the Oder to a camp for deportees near Neuruppin in the Russian zone. Since he was an experienced farmer he received a small allotment out of a big estate broken up in the new land reform. Karl Schwarzenberg has a chance of making a new life-as a peasant. He even has a chance of finding his lost child...
...million are still to come, including refugees from the once-German Baltic port of Stettin. The major part of Stettin lies west of the Oder River, provisional Polish-German frontier. But, with Russian consent, the Poles moved over the Oder, took over all of Stettin. Now 200,000 Germans there have been ordered to clear out. There was one Polish concession: they would not eject the Germans until after the harvest...
...West Sunit, deep in the steppe. There he forgot the cares of state, frolicked with his two children, took airplane rides, wrestled (the chief Mongolian recreation) with old cronies, played the guitar and sang old songs of the glorious days when his forebears ruled Europe as far as the Oder and Danube Rivers and Asia from Bagdad to Burma...
...years the dynamic Germans pushed the Slavic peoples eastward, across the Spree, across the Oder, out of Pomerania and Silesia, out of the flatlands of East Prussia. Now Germans-at least ten million of them-were losing their lands to Slavs...