Word: oppeln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the factory city of Oppeln and as close to the battling Red Armies as they could crowd, the Polish Government's plenipotentiaries pushed toward a proposed frontier that would follow the Oder River from the Bohemian mountains through Pomerania to the Baltic...
...forces, heading straight for Poznan, had already covered about half the distance from Warsaw to the defense line the Germans have built along their 1939 border. Konev's army was already on German soil in Silesia, was within 28 miles of Breslau and pressed close upon Oppeln, both on the Oder and key points in the Reich's second most important , coal and steel area. Crossings there would set up a flank for future development of a strike to the inner Reich...