Word: silesia
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...remnants of more than 1,000,000 German D.P.s (displaced persons), ousted from Czechoslovakia, were drifting westward and northward. They had fled Silesia before the Red Army. Now their homes were Polish-owned, Russian-ruled. Some hitched rides-on carts, trucks, freight cars, anything that moved on wheels. Others moved gypsy-fashion in creaking covered wagons. Like 60,000 Sudetenlanders expelled with them (and like the Germans from Austria), they were the unwanted children of enforced marriages of nations, now dissolved...
...years the dynamic Germans pushed the Slavic peoples eastward, across the Spree, across the Oder, out of Pomerania and Silesia, out of the flatlands of East Prussia. Now Germans-at least ten million of them-were losing their lands to Slavs...
...Potsdam made the Germans foot the bill. What Poland lost to the Russians was about half again as large in area as what she got from the Germans. But the new Polish territory ripped from Germany, stretching to within 35 miles of Berlin, included coal and iron in German Silesia, the transportation centers of Breslau and Küstrin and some 200 miles of Baltic seacoast, with the great port of Danzig and Berlin's seaport, Stettin. In industrial value, at least, Poland was the gainer; what Russia had taken from her was largely agricultural...
...what was once eastern Germany, an anguished tide of humanity, one of the greatest mass movements of Germans in history, flowed toward the borders of the shrunken Reich. At least 10,000,000 hungry Germans were being uprooted from their old homes in East Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, Sudetenland by the new Polish, Czech and Russian owners...
...Silesia, the Sudetenland, East Prussia and Pomerania, surly, stony-eyed Ger mans hid their belongings against the day when they would have to move. Some would go east, to Russia and forced labor. The lucky ones would go west, to a new and humbler life...