Word: baltics
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...Mutinies had occurred in the Baltic Fleet, and in many garrison cities...
...longer a major defense line. In the east two Russian armies were advancing into Austria; two more were poised along the Oder. Somewhere soon the fronts of the east and west would merge. After that might come a furious, chaotic period of cleanup-in Norway, along the Baltic, amid the mountains of southern Germany and northern Italy. But the obscene grandeur that had been Nazi Germany would be dead and finished...
Beyond Credulity. The German radio filled in the canvas of confusion. Hungry Berliners were told to plant potatoes in their flower pots, in order to ease the burden on the strained food supply system. Sailors on the Baltic were ordered to scuttle their ships should there be danger of capture by the enemy. Bank clerks read the Swiss quotation for the Reichsmark: 2,500 to the dollar. Every German could hear the shocking official broadcast...
...this and more. The Red Army's Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, though striking hard, had yet to launch his hardest blows. South of Berlin, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's forces smashed from Oder bases toward the Czechoslovakian border. North of Berlin, Zhukov drove for the old Baltic port of Stettin, tried to tear loose this anchor of the Oder River line...
Zhukov had apparently caught the enemy by surprise at a point where he had no deep defenses. Russian tank rumbled straight north, covered 62 miles in four days and came up to the Baltic dunes near Kolberg. Zhukov had timed his drive with a Baltic-bound thrust of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky; the timing was perfect. Rokossovsky's forces simultaneously burst into Koslin, 24 miles east of Kolberg, then fanned out eastward more than 20 miles along...