Word: konev
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...German command was plainly shaken. It was not proper that Marshal Ivan Konev's First Ukrainian Army had been able to penetrate six deep belts of defense between the starting point of his offensive and Gleiwitz. It was not in the books that his Russians could so quickly chew up the ring of gun points, trenches, minefields, tank traps that circled Gleiwitz and the other heavily populated cities...
...southern Silesia and its complex of German industrial cities. At the Nida the Germans had worked six months to build an impassable barrier. Thousands of Yugoslav laborers had dug three lines of trenches on either side, protected by a string of strong points to the east. Marshal Ivan Konev made straight for these barriers, bypassed the strong points before the enemy had recovered from his breakthrough. Konev's advance forces crossed the formidable Nida line before the retreating Germans could...
Zhukov's forces, heading straight for Poznan, had already covered about half the distance from Warsaw to the defense line the Germans have built along their 1939 border. Konev's army was already on German soil in Silesia, was within 28 miles of Breslau and pressed close upon Oppeln, both on the Oder and key points in the Reich's second most important , coal and steel area. Crossings there would set up a flank for future development of a strike to the inner Reich...
Zhukov's field command of the First Ukrainian Army was then taken over by Marshal Ivan Konev. Now it is the left arm of the offensive, striking at Silesia. When Zhukov returned to the field, he took over from tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, who moved to command the Second White Russian Army, now the right arm of assault aimed at lopping off East Prussia...
...grand assault, gaining momentum and widening the advance. The Russians had pierced 40 miles, had spread their break to a width of 65 miles. They had taken their first prize: Kielce (pop. 58,000), a hub of roads and railways 20 miles west of the point where Konev stopped last August after he had bloodily won his Vistula bridgehead...