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...smell of doom lay heavy on the German air. Almost every German could smell it. The incredible Nazi failure at the Remagen bridge last week sluiced U.S. troops over the Rhine, and Marshal Zhukov's men were pouring over the Oder east of Berlin [see below']. Now, at last, the battle was being joined in the final arena...
...guns thundered out along the Oder. The Marshal's tested team of Army commanders-Colonel Generals Katukov and Bogdanov of the tanks; Belov, the cavalry leader; Chuikov. who led the 62nd Russian Army at Stalingrad; Popov, Kolpakchi, Tsvetayev-moved their men forward...
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...
...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...