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Over the Barriers. The Nida River was now an incident in the taking of ancient Cracow, Poland's fourth city and the gateway to southern Silesia and its complex of German industrial cities. At the Nida the Germans had worked six months to build an impassable barrier. Thousands of Yugoslav laborers had dug three lines of trenches on either side, protected by a string of strong points to the east. Marshal Ivan Konev made straight for these barriers, bypassed the strong points before the enemy had recovered from his breakthrough. Konev's advance forces crossed the formidable Nida...
...Road to Silesia. On Saturday night Moscow broke out its own fire for the first time in many weeks. Twenty salvos from 224 guns saluted Konev's offensive. Marshal Stalin hailed an initial victory-an advance of 25 miles on the sector 100 miles south of Warsaw...
...German command had still another worry. Last week it told of a Red Army thrust toward Cracow on the long-dormant southern Poland front that points to the Reich's industries-rich Silesia, feared it might be the start of a winter offensive. As usual, the Russians gave no hints...
...Curzon line. Poland would be compensated by about half of East Prussia, including Danzig, so that she would have a Baltic coast of some 200 miles (see map). She would also receive unspecified parts of eastern Germany to which Poland had historical claims. Presumably this meant parts of Silesia...
...World War I, German nationalists flocked together in societies, some of them secret like the C Organization, some studiedly innocent like the German Wrestling Bund or the German Social Employment Society. The link was the shadowy Feme, hidden wherever arms were hidden-on Junker estates in East Prussia and Silesia, and in Bavaria. Protection was supplied by the unreconciled in the Republic's Government, by discontented ex-officers in the Black Reichswehr and the Free Corps. From these came many an early Nazi...