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...Germans could guess again-what was Zhukov's immediate plan? Would he turn Konev's pressure northward against Berlin? Or, would he turn most of it westward against Saxony's industries...
...these were not the offensives worrying the Germans. Their spokesmen pointed northward, to the 40-mile stretch held by the Allies along the Roer where the guns of Lieut. Gen. William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army were already drumming a prelude to battles to come. Six new armored divisions, four new infantry divisions had suddenly appeared in this area, said the Nazi radio. The Allies, it added, were preparing for a smash across the Cologne plain to the Rhine...
Over the River. While Konev was spearing into the Dabrowa, he had also fanned out northward, bypassed and besieged Breslau, spread his tanks along the upper "Rhine of the East." By this week (by German account) he was across it at more than a dozen places. One crossing was reported 50 miles northwest of Breslau. At this point he was within 125 miles of Berlin...
...miles around them. Zhukov forced a crossing of the unfrozen Vistula 57 miles south of the city, widened his bridgehead and then struck with the full weight of his armor to carve out a breakthrough. Zhukov's tanks fought and won two battles as they sped northward to the Warsaw-Lódź highway. Eighteen miles north of the city another Russian force made its crossings, struck through to join the main column on the highway. Warsaw was taken from the rear. By the time it fell, most of Zhukov's columns were closing around...
...third day of Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's surprise offensive, fog lay like a folded shroud over the wooded hills and rocky fields of southeastern Belgium. Near Stavelot a large German armored task force of tanks, tank destroyers, self-propelled guns and trucks snaked northward. Its aims: to seize U.S. gasoline and supply dumps just beyond Stavelot, to cut in behind the communications and supply lines of the U.S. First and Ninth Armies. At little Stavelot (pop. 5,000) the Germans would be only 22 miles from Liege, vital U.S. supply point at the end of the line...