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...Odds. Stage II began when Hitler voluntarily gave up one of his advantages. At the onset of the Russian campaign, the Wehrmacht mustered about 150 German and Rumanian divisions to the Russians' 110. In armor and planes the Wehrmacht had even greater superiority. But a month later, in spite of having lost hundreds of thousands of men, Stalin had as many men in the field as Hitler. Hitler never again outclassed his opponents in manpower...
...searing breath of battle had not touched them, luxuriant apple blossoms bloomed along the side streets. Where shells had not amputated the trunks of century-old lindens, there were soft, green leaves, and they fluttered down and stuck like bright greeting cards on the Russian tanks' hot grey armor. In the gardens multi-hued tulips swayed to the gun blasts, and lilacs offered a faint fragrance through the acrid fumes...
Suddenly the fight went out of the Nazi armies in Italy. Their lines had collapsed. Allied armor, spearing through masses of bewildered Germans, spread out over northern Italy, reached toward the Swiss border near Como, cut retreat lines and started the final...
...back to Küstrin and Schwedt, thousands of dead German soldiers, more thousands of prisoners, hills of wreckage. In five days they had fought through five defense belts, smashing down a great concentration of enemy tanks in what may have been the war's biggest battle of armor. Now they could pierce the heart of the Hitlerites' realm-the scarred, sprawling fourth city of the world, the Nazis' holy ground. Russian shells screamed over and around Hitler's Kanzlei on Wilhelmstrasse and exploded close to Hermann Göringstrasse and into Potsdamer Platz. There...
...much of the city had been quickly turned into a Nazi rout. The street battles of seven days & nights were the last phases of a strategic victory that had been won in four weeks of battles along the roads from Budapest. In those battles the Germans had desperately spent armor and manpower. The Red Army had chopped apart eleven armored divisions...