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Shaping Up. Still Zhukov hesitated before Berlin, waiting while the whole line assumed the same curving shape it had held on the Vistula, on the Dnieper. Along the Oder, Red Army engineers split boxlike German windmills to build barges for their tanks...
...long, narrow spearhead that Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov had thrust toward Berlin broadened out. While Zhukov paused, Marshal Ivan S. Konev hammered into line on his left. The Red armies were linked along the east bank of the Oder, their flanks more secure...
Zhukov was in position for the thrust. He had driven across the Oder, had chosen the roads and flat fields from Küstrin, Frankfurt and Fürstenberg (see map) over which to hurtle his huge Stalin tanks. He had the power: the Oder crossings and envelopment of his three chosen points proved that his 275-mile advance had not exhausted its momentum...
Konev had plunged into the second phase of his offensive, had widened his front west of the Oder to 100 miles. He had broken across the Breslau-Berlin Autobahn, stood within 75 miles of Dresden. Konev matched his power with daring. In a snowstorm naked troops had plunged into the icy Oder, had pushed ahead of them doors, benches, barrels, anything that would float and keep uniforms and weapons dry. Many a Russian died with his boots off, but many more got across...
Into the factory city of Oppeln and as close to the battling Red Armies as they could crowd, the Polish Government's plenipotentiaries pushed toward a proposed frontier that would follow the Oder River from the Bohemian mountains through Pomerania to the Baltic...