Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barring a sudden internal collapse of the Reich, it has long been apparent that the last great battle of Germany would be fought between the Oder and the Rhine (TIME, Aug. 28). Last week U.S. troops moved up to the Rhine north of Cologne. Marshal Zhukov had been waiting for four weeks on the Oder, opposite Berlin. When the western and eastern armies meet, the Germans north of the junction line can be pinned against the sea and liquidated with relative ease...
General Eisenhower had hoped to crush Nazi resistance in the west in front of the Rhine. Field Marshal von Rundstedt, however, observing the Allied power arrayed against him, ordered a withdrawal behind the big river. It was a choice of two evils. Rundstedt's decision meant that the vital industries of the Ruhr would be brought into the front lines-the forward areas exposed to immediate shellfire, and the whole valley to eventual cross-river attack...
...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...
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...
...Yalta about disbanding the National Committee of Free Germany, nothing was published about it. Yet it was this group in the Free Germany Committee that was the key to Russia's future intentions in Germany. It was Wilhelm Pieck, not Bismarck's great-grandson, or Field Marshal von Paulus, who might realize in reverse the Iron Chancellor's dream of a strong Russian-German alliance. Until Russia disavowed Pieck and his committee, it could be assumed that the Kremlin had a plan for them...