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Bloody Prelude. In the 17-by-6-mile Oder bridgehead directly east of Berlin, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, the Nazis said, had packed some 72,000 Red Army soldiers and more than 400 tanks. They clawed their way through Kustrin fortress, reached within 31 miles of the capital. But this, added the Germans, was only the prelude to the real Battle of Berlin...
...knew better than Berliners that Berlin would need all 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...
Patient, blunt-featured Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov had waited. Now his northern flank was anchored on the sea, his southern flank secure. The time was at hand to resume the westward march-to Berlin, the north German plains, an eventual linking with Russia's allies...
...four weeks the Germans had nervously watched as Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov beefed up a tremendous force for the assault aimed at Berlin. The Germans had time to do something: build a deep line of entrenchments and "kettles" (Red Army slang for German "hedgehogs") back of the Oder and Neisse Rivers, at which the Russians had halted. The Germans could do something else: concentrate against Zhukov's most threatening thrust, aimed at Stettin. They had good kettles in the Stargard area...
...main front, Marshal Ivan Konev, with the certainty of immense power, slowly extended his advance south of Marshal Georgi Zhukov's grip on the Oder River to form a bulgeless front. By this week their combined front threatening Berlin was 90 miles long-twice as long as it had been two weeks before...