Word: pomerania
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Silesia, the Sudetenland, East Prussia and Pomerania, surly, stony-eyed Ger mans hid their belongings against the day when they would have to move. Some would go east, to Russia and forced labor. The lucky ones would go west, to a new and humbler life...
Four Armies. Marshal Zhukov probably had more than 1,000,000 men massed before the Berlin sector. To the north were some 500,000 more-the armies of Marshals Alexander M. Vasilevsky and Konstantin K. Rokossovsky. which had flattened the East Prussia and Pomerania pockets. To the south, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's big First Ukrainian Army was launched to hurl itself toward Dresden. Against all this massive weight was the largest force the shredded Wehrmacht could muster: perhaps 900,000 men in formidable defense positions. But greater German forces had failed to stop the Red Army when...
...Russian blasts had ripped through Pomerania's roads and rails, cutting off perhaps 200,000 German troops in the 8,200-plus square mile area east of Kolberg. Zhukov had trebled German trouble...
...watching so intently, he built up an explosive force east and north of Stargard. Last week he touched it off as part of a double blast. When the smoke had cleared, the stunned Germans found that the Russians were on the Baltic at two points and had lanced Pomerania into three segments, accomplishing a vast double encirclement. The probable result: destruction of the 200-mile Pomeranian and Polish Corridor front, from which the Germans might have launched an attack on the Russians' long northern flank...