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...trilogy on a subject that has haunted Solzhenitsyn all his life: Russia's role in the war against Germany in 1914. The work is intended as a memorial to his father, an artillery officer in the Czarist army who participated in the disastrous battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia in August 1914. As an artillery captain in World War II, Solzhenitsyn passed through Tannenberg, but he was not around to savor the eventual Russian victory. In February 1945, Solzhenitsyn was arrested for writing barely veiled criticism of Stalin in letters to a friend, and sentenced to eight years...
Secret Protocol. The problem of Poland's ethnic Germans dates from 1945, when Silesia, East Brandenburg, Pomerania and East Prussia, the former German provinces east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, were ceded to Poland at the Potsdam Conference. Some 9,575,000 Germans lived in the four provinces then; 7,330,000 have since left. In December, when West Germany recognized the Oder-Neisse boundary in the Bonn-Warsaw Treaty, a secret protocol paved the way for the remaining Germans to leave...
...states gather to savor the fruits of their victory over France's armies. The Franco-Prussian War has given the Germans something that eluded them for centuries?unity. As the architect of that unity, Count Otto von Bismarck looks on, gripping the long spike of his Prussian helmet, while Prussia's King Wilhelm proclaims the establishment of the German Empire. Historian Thomas Carlyle hails the German victory in a letter to the Times of London: "That noble, patient, deep, pious and solid Germany should be at length welded into a nation and become Queen of the Continent instead of vaporing...
From thick forests and plains deep in Prussia to the fog-shrouded Baltic coast, the Warsaw Pact last week began the most massive military maneuvers in its history. A total of 100,000 men drawn from all seven member nations were being deployed under Russian command, in an exercise code-named "Brotherhood in Arms." At the same time, NATO started its biggest war games of the year, also involving 100,000 men, in the eastern Mediterranean area. Code-named "Deep Express," they involve air, land and sea forces from eight Western nations...
...political climate. Though German lands east of the Oder and Neisse rivers were put under Polish control at the close of World War II, West Germany's two television networks never renounced the German claim to the former provinces of Silesia, most of Pomerania and East Prussia. Each night 26 million West German television viewers saw a map that boldly portrayed German borders as they were in 1937, including the huge slices of land that now belong to Poland...