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...General Eisenhower's armies ate deeper & deeper into the Reich, approaching Berlin and Dresden, and the Russian steam roller began clanking westward from the Oder River, the hottest question in the Allied world was: when will V-E day come? Behind that was another, subtler question: at what stage of German disintegration would a victory proclamation be justified? The second question was answered this week by Eisenhower in characteristically straightforward and sensible fashion: "There will be no V-E day until Germany is completely occupied, including all pockets of resistance, and the German Army is completely destroyed...
...Next day the Third's 6th Armored moved up 46 miles to the vicinity of Jena. Next day the same Army's famed 4th Armored sped 32 miles across the railroads and highway linking Berlin and Munich. Thereafter enemy traffic had to take the roundabout route through Dresden and Prague...
...week's end the Ninth and First had come up to the Elbe at several points along a 150-mile stretch fronting Berlin. The First had bypassed Leipzig. The Third's left wing was in the Chemnitz-Dresden area, and its right had captured the Wagner-festival city of Bayreuth...
...huge flood of Russian might along the Oder and Neisse Rivers, fronting Berlin and Dresden, began to rise this week. The dikes crumpled first in the plains northeast of Berlin. Marshal Georgi Zhukov's forces, behind a tremendous predawn artillery shoot and attacks by swarms of bombers, broke into the Schwedt area below Stettin and set up a new Oder bridgehead 45 miles northeast of Berlin...
There was little doubt that the Red Army was ready to unloose the flood all along the Stettin-Dresden front. And there was no doubt of the outcome as the Russians pushed toward the Americans-at some points less than 80 miles away...