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...Abstract Painter Hélion began to plot his escape. With the aid of a Shell Oil road map he had found, Hélion spent months studying a route to Switzerland. Suddenly he was moved to a camp at Stettin in eastern Germany. There he was made prison interpreter, got himself elected "representative" by the other prisoners. He gained the confidence of the Nazis. Meanwhile he picked up vital facts about the geography of the district. Again he began to plan escape...
...small, the bombing of Berlin was no flash in the pan. The Russians were back over German-held territory night after night; they had slammed Warsaw, Stettin, Danzig, Königsberg and Budapest before the week...
With what she could spare from her southern front, Russia smashed at Germany with her long-range aircraft, sent some on round-trip missions of 1,800 miles. Königsberg, Danzig and Stettin felt their fury, but what pleased Russians most was the objective farthest from home...
...Germans on & on, to defeat them on their own blood-dry soil. Since it took the German central Armies five great battles to get within field-glass view of Moscow, it was not likely that the Russians would now be able to surge in one unbroken wave to Stettin, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder and Breslau. This first happy plunge would necessarily wear itself out. Whether an other would succeed it was the crucial question...
Britain gave more than it took. In bombing sweeps over the Continent, Wellington, Hampden, Whitley bombers dropped miniature earthquakes on Stuttgart, Stettin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and other towns. A British raid on Boulogne was so heavy that it shook and boomed across the Channel, could be heard plainly in British coastal towns. Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair dreamily heralded a British blitz "to prepare the way for advance of the Allied Armies into Germany...