Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper Front und Heimat: "Everything is at stake. Our position is serious. The armed mass which advances from the east is reaching out for our sacred soil. . . . Every man who can carry a gun must take to arms...
East Prussia, bloodied by history, was a fitting arena for the first real battles on German soil in World War II. But it did not seem so to the Germans in East Prussia. They, according to reports in Stockholm, exhibited "the highest state of alarm." At Königsberg the Nazis were said to be dismantling the port installations. The wife of Gauleiter Erich Koch departed for the German interior with three truckloads of furniture...
...View Is Long. Aside from their natural desire to "cleanse" the last Russian soil of the enemy, their White Russia drive seemed calculated to bring that front into line with the more advanced southern sector, which would then have its right flank secured for a sweep across south Poland to Germany. Last week's push might also be the start of a flank envelopment which might reach for Koenigsberg and cut off all the Nazi hordes to the north...
Against the Bulge. The Red High Command struck on a 150-mile front in White Russia, against the Wehrmacht's easternmost bulge. Crisscrossed by swift rivers, small lakes, marshes and dense birch and pine woods, these lush plains accounted for most of the Russian soil still held by the invader. There last week the blue dusk of early northern summer lasted all night...
...holly-hocks. Not geraniums. Nothing majestic and beautiful; not even GOP sunflowers. Just plain garden-variety radishes. But the curious public soon cleaned out the Yard's first useful food crop, and it seemed that grass would, after all, be the main product of several months' tilling of the soil...