Word: prussia
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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...
...Government noticeably did not demand a final showdown when the Red Army entered Old Poland. The Poles, if reasonably approached, may yet be willing to consider the Russian proposal that they surrender at least part of pre-war Eastern Poland, turn to German East Prussia and Silesia for recompense. Essentially, what the Polish Government cries out against is not so much the loss of part of Eastern Poland by postwar negotiation as the prospect that there will be no opportunity for negotiation...
Dark days came for Poland as the Russians began to come out of their endless birch forests and drift westward, seeking a place in Europe. The era culminated in the three partitions of Poland in 1772, 1793 and 1795. At the end, there was no Poland; Russia, Prussia and Austria had swallowed everything...
...Fellow doctors, if we do not exert ourselves, you will be mobilized in Germany, then shifted to the battlefields of the East where, in a German uniform, you will die for the King of Prussia. . . . Help to resist deportation by eliminating as many Frenchmen as you can at 'medical examinations'. . . . Prepare to stay in France in spite of the order...
...showing the gains of the previous winter. On the western fringe of that map lay Odessa, Kiev, Mogilev, Vitebsk-all still deep in the enemy's rear. On the western fringe of the map published in Moscow newspapers last week lay Bucharest, Warsaw, Konigsberg in East Prussia...