EASTERN THEATRE: This Day Ends a Battle

Last week war in Poland had its official end as Adolf Hitler flew to Warsaw. He arrived at the city, left it thoughtful. For what Adolf Hitler saw as he drove into town was a city which he, artist by ambition, architect of a Chancellery and an eagle's nest, had designed—a city of charred wrecks, broken windows, gutted streets, tram rails bent into tortured question marks.

Accompanied by Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces, and Heinrich Himmler, Chief of Secret Police, Victor Hitler drove through the...

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