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Nervously they looked southward, where Zhukov was reported to have 1,200,000 men massed, waiting for the flooded Oder to return to its. banks. Northward the Red Marshal's columns smashed their way into Altdamm, the last German position on the right bank of the Oder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN FRONT: Prongs of Steel | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Grown suddenly alarmed, the German radio called Zhukov's attack "murderous." Soviet formations, in actions reminiscent of Belleau Wood, squeezed the Germans from the Klützer forest southeast of the city. They converged on Altdamm, four miles east of the city. Along a six-mile stretch the Russians stood looking across the mile-wide river marshes at the smoking shambles of Stettin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: EASTERN FRONT: The Marshal Waits | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

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