Word: silesian
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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...
...possibilities of the Konev and Zhukov drives were tremendous. Konev presumably had the power to expand his Silesian grip toward richer industrial prizes in Czechoslovakia. But his grip on the Oder was a strategic threat. Linked with Zhukov's advance, it could be forged into the familiar pattern of Red Army bridgeheads established in force far from the ultimate objective. Thus the Sandomierz grip on the upper Vistula had been the springboard for the present offensive. Thus the crossing of the Danube far south in Yugoslavia had brought the toppling of Budapest. So the Oder-the last wide ditch...
...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...