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At least one crystal ball is unclouded. Herman Finer, visiting lecturer on Government, predicted in June, 1944, shortly after D-Day, that the war in Europe would end when the Russian armies had taken Breslau, in German Silesia. Last January he weakened his prediction by saying that Breslau would fall late in February.
After that, everybody forgot all about the cracle from the London School of Economics. But his original prediction turned out to be true, if not in quite the way Finer had expected. The Russians by-passed Breslau, and it didn't finally end its resistance until V-E Day.
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