Word: vistula
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...current and anticipated conquests. Flushed with confidence of an early and complete victory, Nazi economic experts proclaimed the dethroning of gold and announced the future domination of world trade by a centrally controlled Kontinental-Mittel-europäischer-Wirtschaftsraum (Continental-Central-European Economic Space), extending from Gibraltar to the Vistula and from the Norwegian coast to Sicily. With equal assurance, German steel companies offered steel to South American countries at prices considerably lower than U. S. quotations with a cash guarantee of delivery by October, and Hamburg shipping firms advised Ecuadorian cotton mills to have extensive orders of cotton ready...
...Ribbentrop clicked with his Soviet hosts. Working long after midnight in the Kremlin two nights running, Premier Molotov and the German Foreign Minister, with J. Stalin sitting in, again redrew the map of Poland (see map). They moved last fortnight's provisional "Military Division" far eastward from the Vistula River to the Bug. Racially the population on the swastika side is almost purely Polish, on the hammer & sickle side it is nearly all of Ukrainian or White Russian blood. Thus the new "Permanent Boundary" is drawn on broad ethnographic lines. It was embodied in a mealy-mouthed Protocol...
...sufficient Polish authority remained in Poland last week to form the nucleus of a useful buffer, that the only thing to do was to draw the technically strongest possible frontier, separating the Russian and German Armies by the physical expanse of three great Polish rivers, the Narew, the Vistula...
...Still Waiting..." Although the German campaign in Poland was "ended" according to General Brauchitsch who left last week for the Western Front, the agony of Warsaw only increased. As the Vistula flows through Poland's former Capital, Warsaw was sliced by the Military Division theoretically into German and Soviet parts. But the whole city continued to resist while the High Commands carved it up on paper...
...west of the capital, between the German pincers, fell back into the city, joining the defenders. To the north, Modlin fortress fell and a German force crossed the Bug River east of Warsaw, cutting off retreat. From the southwest, the German drive swung eastward past Radom, crossed the Vistula. Warsaw was surrounded. Once again it faced its historic fate. For ten times Warsaw had been taken by an invader-the last time on August 5, 1915, when Mackensen's army stormed its fortifications and Prince Leopold of Bavaria rode into the city in triumph. But although it was bombed...