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...Nazi plan was also clear-to string resistance out until the last spring snapped. By now all of Germany, from Hamburg to Vienna, from the Oder to the Ysselmeer, was one gigantic pocket...
...west there was no longer a major defense line. In the east two Russian armies were advancing into Austria; two more were poised along the Oder. Somewhere soon the fronts of the east and west would merge. After that might come a furious, chaotic period of cleanup-in Norway, along the Baltic, amid the mountains of southern Germany and northern Italy. But the obscene grandeur that had been Nazi Germany would be dead and finished...
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...
...Silesia stocky Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian Army group hammered southward from its Oder bridgehead. Konev's troops neared the gateway to the Ziegenhals Pass, and the Czechoslovakian city of Moravska Ostrava, guarding the Moravian...
Nervously they looked southward, where Zhukov was reported to have 1,200,000 men massed, waiting for the flooded Oder to return to its. banks. Northward the Red Marshal's columns smashed their way into Altdamm, the last German position on the right bank of the Oder...