Word: silesia
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...least one crystal ball is unclouded. Herman Finer, visiting lecturer on Government, predicted in June, 1944, shortly after D-Day, that the war in Europe would end when the Russian armies had taken Breslau, in German Silesia. Last January he weakened his prediction by saying that Breslau would fall late in February...
...Sheffield, Yorkshire, Mrs. Sarah Meese enfolded and kissed her new daughter-in-law-the former Fräulein Ursula Hosier of Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. Said British Mrs. Meese to German Mrs. Meese: "You are lovely. I'll look after you. Don't worry. I'll make you happy...
...prongs cut up from Hungary and down from Silesia, ripping toward the Bohemian bastion. In three months Colonel General Johannes Friessner had sacrificed four of his eleven armored divisions to drive the Russians back from the southern entrances to this natural fortress...
...Silesia stocky Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian Army group hammered southward from its Oder bridgehead. Konev's troops neared the gateway to the Ziegenhals Pass, and the Czechoslovakian city of Moravska Ostrava, guarding the Moravian...
...spearheads on the west bank could reach farther. Konev columns snaked around Breslau, sealed off Silesia's largest city, locked up its garrison. Red Army Tommy gunners broke into the town, began a grim house-to-house fight...