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...Lucky One. Karl Schwarzenberg inherited a 200-acre farm near Stargard, in Pomerania, where Germans had lived since 1253. He prospered, especially during...
...deep line of entrenchments and "kettles" (Red Army slang for German "hedgehogs") back of the Oder and Neisse Rivers, at which the Russians had halted. The Germans could do something else: concentrate against Zhukov's most threatening thrust, aimed at Stettin. They had good kettles in the Stargard area...
Zhukov also could do something. Where the Germans were not watching so intently, he built up an explosive force east and north of Stargard. Last week he touched it off as part of a double blast. When the smoke had cleared, the stunned Germans found that the Russians were on the Baltic at two points and had lanced Pomerania into three segments, accomplishing a vast double encirclement. The probable result: destruction of the 200-mile Pomeranian and Polish Corridor front, from which the Germans might have launched an attack on the Russians' long northern flank...
Guessing Games. Berlin could wait. The Germans could continue to guess where Red power would strike next. Last week they guessed rightly that some of it would continue to strike toward Stettin, Berlin's Baltic port. Nazi troops slowed the Russians just short of the towered walls of Stargard, Stettin's outer fortress. But there were not enough Germans to meet all the drives now threatening to sew up Pomerania in a giant pocket. East and south of Stettin the Russians made steady advances in other thrusts...
...unseeing night, a train steamed across the Polish Corridor* on its way from Berlin to East Prussia. Between the German town of Stargard and the Polish town of Dirschau, the engine ran off the tracks, the two front coaches telescoped, the remainder of the train, except the last two coaches, toppled over a 20-ft. embankment, 25 persons, including 12 women and 2 children, were killed, some 30 others were injured. The accident occurred in exactly the same place as a similar wreck...
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