Word: pomerania
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...that some of it would continue to strike toward Stettin, Berlin's Baltic port. Nazi troops slowed the Russians just short of the towered walls of Stargard, Stettin's outer fortress. But there were not enough Germans to meet all the drives now threatening to sew up Pomerania in a giant pocket. East and south of Stettin the Russians made steady advances in other thrusts...
Flanking Threats. Although Marshal Zhukov aimed his biggest spear at Berlin, his northern wing had pounded to within 20 miles of Berlin's Baltic port of Stettin. That drive threatened to cut off 11,000 square miles of Germany's northeastern province of Pomerania...
...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...
Moscow suggested that Poland might in return take slices of Germany -presumably East Prussia, Upper Silesia and perhaps a sliver of Pomerania-territories to which Poland has dim historic rights and some strategic claim. Ethnologically and morally, Poland's claim to parts of Germany is no better than her claim to the eastern provinces; the single merit of such a gerrymander is that it would strengthen Russia and Poland, weaken Germany. There is much evidence that this idea was discussed at Teheran...
From their sunny cabins in the sky, U.S. Eighth Air Force bombardiers last week pinpointed targets in East Prussia, Pomerania, Occupied Poland. It meant: 1) there is no haven in any part of Germany for bomb-sick Nazis, either by day (U.S.) or by night (R.A.F.) and 2) the German fighter force has been pushed farther & farther inland, its elasticity about gone. Some American bombs fell on Danzig, already bombed by the Red Air Force. The cost: 29 U.S. bombers, 91 German fighters...