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...December, when Rundstedt broke through in the Ardennes, gloom lay heavy on the western Allies. Last week, as Joseph Stalin's armies thundered into the eastern Reich, the pendulum was swinging back to rosy optimism. Perhaps, once more, it was swinging...
Before then, of course, might come the internal convulsion that would wreck the Third Reich for good & all. There were few portents of any such convulsion last week. Germany's leaders still had two hopes: 1) a serious quarrel among the Allies; 2) deadly new V-weapons which Nazi scientists are struggling to bring into action...
...great new engine works, also built far from the Allied bomber fields. At Beuthen was the biggest zinc mine in Europe. Out of Katowice had poured automobiles, chemicals, machine tools. Out of the basin had gone much of the coal for the industries and railroads of the eastern Reich and Czechoslovakia...
Silesia Kaput. Official Berlin was staggered. Bluntly, it told the German people that Silesia had been written off, that the Reich's second most important industrial area was a place for house-to-house battling. Even as the Germans heard that agonizing news, the street battles were ended...
...about half the distance from Warsaw to the defense line the Germans have built along their 1939 border. Konev's army was already on German soil in Silesia, was within 28 miles of Breslau and pressed close upon Oppeln, both on the Oder and key points in the Reich's second most important , coal and steel area. Crossings there would set up a flank for future development of a strike to the inner Reich...