Word: prussia
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...Cession of the Saar and other Rhineland industrial areas to France; cession of East Prussia to Poland...
...military capital. Since then the enemy's defense has been a series of check-kiting swindles against time. They may have begun even earlier, when he drew on the Bank of the West to bolster his account with the Bank of the East (before Warsaw and East Prussia...
...small U.S. forces entered Alsace (then German territory) six months before the Armistice, were held just over the border; the Russians got as far as East Prussia in 1914; in 1939 a French patrol crossed the German border, crossed right back again...
North of Zakharov, in turn, the Third White Russian Army pressed against the easternmost reaches of East Prussia. Still farther north the First Baltic Army pushed deep into southern Latvia, to within 20 miles of Riga. The Germans said the Russians were driving with 40 divisions. In any event, the largest land army in the world was again on the move, its spearheads only 325 miles from Berlin...
Once more the Reds beat the drums in front of East Prussia. From the banks of the narrow Scheschuppa River on the border, a Red Fleet correspondent wrote: "Before us stretches Germany. Beyond this insignificant river is a steep bank, then fields with clover, brush, clumps of trees surrounded by wire and trenches, big barns with tile roofs, the red and pastel-colored roofs of houses. . . . We know that the earth beyond the Scheschuppa River will take a lot of our blood, but we know that without this blood humanity can never find peace...