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...Ribbentrop explained that the Russians would probably stop somewhere between the Vistula and the Oder, permitting Germany to hold a thin line, reinforce the West and get credit among a fairly large number of 'sensible people' in Britain and the U.S. for keeping the Russians out of Central Europe. Determination would pull Germany through as the dominant power in Central Europe, which the English-speaking Allies would have to support and arm against might of Russia...
...prisoner suspected of informing on these heroes the camp had a secret court, judge and jury. "Willful treason" was punishable by death-the stool pigeon surreptitiously dropped through a hole in the ice of the Oder River. Willful disclosure of minor information was punished by six rounds in the ring with the camp's boxing champion. Disclosure through stupidity marked the offender as "utterly dangerous"; he was completely ostracized...
...defeat them on their own blood-dry soil. Since it took the German central Armies five great battles to get within field-glass view of Moscow, it was not likely that the Russians would now be able to surge in one unbroken wave to Stettin, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder and Breslau. This first happy plunge would necessarily wear itself out. Whether an other would succeed it was the crucial question...
...Already in effect is a concession to Germany whereby trains from Annaberg and Mittehwalde to Breclav are not subject to Czech customs regulation as they cross Bohemia. A German-built canal will connect the Oder and the Danube...
Briskly talked of last week, too, was still another canal, this one linking the Baltic and Berlin directly with the Danube via the Oder and the Elbe across Czechoslovakia. Suggested by Dr. Walther Funk, German Minister of Economic Affairs, was the plan that Germany pay the costs, Czechoslovakia do the work. Virtually certain of adoption, this plan would complete the economic subjugation of Czechoslovakia, insure Germany doubly against a trade blockade in the future, and, by thus binding ancient Bohemia all round with Reich boundaries, put the final proof to Bismarck's theory that whoever rules Bohemia is master...