Word: silesia
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...Roer valley is the natural platform for an attack on the Ruhr, now all the more precious to Germany since industrial Silesia has been invaded by the Russians. From the Roer Eisenhower had been preparing to attack in December when Rundstedt's blow fell. Now Eisenhower was preparing to attack again, in the same valley. He had completely regained the initiative. The place was right, the time was ripe- and, according to the nervous Ger mans, Lieut. General William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army was accumulating potent masses of armor. Lack of armor in heavy concentration...
This was important because Teschen flanks the Moravian Gate, the No. 1 pass into the natural fortress of Bohemia. Bismarck had laid it down as a political maxim that "whoever controls Bohemia controls Europe. " It was almost as axiomatic that whatever strong power controlled Silesia controlled Prussia...
GERMANY Move Over, Pharaoh Germany's ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm was well on the way to being sovietized last week. His 25,000-acre estate at Oels was in the hands of the Red Army; his duchies of Pomerania and Silesia were being claimed by the Warsaw Government of Poland (see above). It seemed only a question of time until all the $17,000,000 worth of Hohenzollern land in Germany would pass out of the family-perhaps, too, the rocky eyrie at Sigmaringen, from which the Hohenzollerns originally came, and which the Nazis, with creditable irony...
...entire eastern front, ablaze in various degrees from beleaguered Königsberg to southernmost Silesia, no single battle was more important than this. On its outcome might hang the immediate fate of Berlin-perhaps ultimately of Germany itself. Minefields, German armor, and heavy snows so thick that correspondents said they felt, rather than saw, the movement of endless hordes of Russian men and armor, could check but could not permanently halt the hate-filled Russian juggernaut (apparently neither could an unseasonable thaw). The Germans, too, felt the Russian fury as tons of shells bored holes in the grey, low-hanging...
...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...