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...spearheads on the west bank could reach farther. Konev columns snaked around Breslau, sealed off Silesia's largest city, locked up its garrison. Red Army Tommy gunners broke into the town, began a grim house-to-house fight...
...behind the Russian lines were an estimated 650,000 Germans. Perhaps the long drain on manpower was at last beginning to tell. The 50-day agony of Budapest, one of the surrounded strong points, came to an end. The guns fell silent and out of the rubble crawled the garrison, 110,000 dazed men. Red Army soldiers moved in, flushed the Nazi commander, Colonel General Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, out of a sewer...
...strength drained out of them by almost three years of the horror which began at Bataan. But they were still sick, emaciated, unarmed-still prisoners deep within the Jap lines. Jap combat troops, moving northeast along the highway which ran past the camp, used the prison's garrison barracks for temporary quarters. Japs in force were only a mile to the south...
Manpower. Germany has about 90 divisions fighting on secondary fronts (Italy, the Balkans), or on garrison duty in Norway and elsewhere, or isolated in the French ports, the Mediterranean islands, Latvia. From Hungary to East Prussia, Hitler had about 180 divisions with which to face Stalin's great winter offensive. In December, he had about 80 divisions, including reserves, marshaled against Eisenhower in the west. Last week the Russians claimed 295,000 Hitlerites killed, 86,000 captured since Jan. 12, and 200,000 more encircled in East Prussia. The U.S. had claimed 90.000 enemy casualties in the battle...
There was Russian power everywhere. The German garrison at Memel, which had held a last fragment of Lithuania since October, was overcome. And nearly 600 miles to the south, below Budapest, the Russians suddenly pushed out in new attacks...