Word: silesian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians follow their familiar pattern, they will firmly secure the Pomeranian and Silesian flanks before they move on Berlin. If Berlin is lost before the western Allies move, the Nazis will still hold the Ruhr. When that is gone, they will still have the industries of central and southern Germany, Austria, Bohemia to nourish a diminished, compact and desperate Wehrmacht for a while longer...
...point the Russians had surged over the Nida River, the last formidable water barrier before Cracow. Only 40 miles beyond that ancient fortress of Poland's kings are the industrial towns on Germany's Silesian border...
...wily, egg-bald Marshal Konev, commanding the First Ukrainian Army in place of Marshal Zhukov, who had gone to Moscow to be Stalin's deputy commander in chief. On the rail line to Cracow, Konev stormed Przemysl and Jaroslav. At Przemsyl he was 180 miles from the Silesian corner of Germany...
...pinning down German forces there, while the main Soviet offensive was launched in southern Poland, on the broad plain between the Carpathians and the Pripet marshes. In a pincer attack from north and south, Zhukov, enveloping Lwów, would find himself on the road to the Silesian corner of Germany proper...
Montgomery swept past the white, empty shells of Tobruk's ruined houses. He rumbled through Ain el-Gazála, Dérna. He roared on past El Gubba, where the Silesian father in a flowing beard, who had clung to his parish through five occupations, intoned: "Religion is above wars...