Word: poznan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mikolajczyk was 17, fresh from his father's 50-acre farm in Poznan, when he joined the Polish uprising against the crumbling German Army. Two years later (1920), he was a private in the new Polish Army that beat the new Russian Army back from Warsaw...
Died. Feliks Nowowiejski, 68, first-rank conductor and patriot composer of Poland's national hymn, Rota,* who was stricken in 1942, while a Nazi captive, with complete, permanent paralysis; in Poznan...
Parable in Poznan. Important as they were to Russia and to Europe, the Balkan treaties in themselves were not enough to drive the Big Powers so far toward fission. One evident reality was that Molotov did not want to defend Russia's oppressive Balkan regimes before too big an audience; his objecting to French and Chinese participation was his way of avoiding that unpleasant task...
Last week Poznan and Arnswalde fell. Poznan, Poland's fourth city, was a notable victory, even though it was 100 miles behind the front facing Berlin. At Poznan the Red Army reported having killed 25,000 Nazis and captured 23,000. Arnswalde was significant as a guardian outpost of Stettin, 40 miles to the northwest...
...latest Red Army offensive, many German "hedgehog" strong points had been overrun, but many had stood as outposts for a possible Nazi counter-drive. Among them had been Poznan, Torun, Schneidernühl, Arnswalde, Grudziadz, Breslau. Of these pockets of resistance, only two still stood this week: Grudziadz (on the Polish Corridor approaches to Danzig) and Breslau-and both appeared doomed...