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...Over the Oder? Of such incidents, of such weight and urgency was the massive Red Army offensive last week. The Russians swept forward with an impetus which no losses, no barriers had been able to brake. By this week it seemed that its momentum could not be slowed short of the banks of the Oder (see below...
...representative of the, Lublin Committee, writing in Pravda, claimed frontiers up to the Oder River for the new Poland.) Churchill did not say who was to get the bigger part of East Prussia, including the port and fortress of Königsberg, to which the Russians have staked claims...
...forces. One could fight up the Danubian gateway to Germany through Vienna to Linz, Munich and Nürnberg. The other could follow the Moravian gateway to northern Czechoslovakia-the Bohemian bastion.* Other Russian forces now before Cracow could move in to join the Bohemian drive through the Oder...
...peace terms" and "withdrawal" a smokescreen?-another desperate stall for time? One thing was certain. Hitler & Co. were still on top, arid so long as they stayed on top there could be no peace. Heinrich Himmler was preparing a fanatical home army to fight the final battle between the Oder and the Rhine, and to fight on as guerrillas after the last battle was lost. The Allies, east and west, needed to get into Germany as soon as possible, to upset these preparations before they became effective. Otherwise the war might drag on for dreary months of skirmishing and mopping...
...Westward, Poland must expand to include "ancient Pomorze [Pomerania], Upper Silesia, East Prussia, with its broad outlet to the sea, and Polish outposts on the Oder." No plan for German dismemberment had gone as far as this: it would lop from prewar Germany a large (roughly 26,000 sq. mi.),populous (about 6,500,000), rich (coal and iron mines, farm lands) territory, most of which had not belonged to the Slavs since the 11th Century. It would push Poland's border to within 50 miles of Berlin...