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...armor. Now they could pierce the heart of the Hitlerites' realm-the scarred, sprawling fourth city of the world, the Nazis' holy ground. Russian shells screamed over and around Hitler's Kanzlei on Wilhelmstrasse and exploded close to Hermann Göringstrasse and into Potsdamer Platz. There, in the Kriegsministerium, the conquest of Russia had once been mapped by confident Wehrmacht commanders...
...envelopment and destruction would have to be total. Fear-crazed men fought beside the fanatics as the teeth of the clamp bit deeper by the hour. Now the Russians were on the main spokes of the wheel of Chaussees and wide Strassen that led to the hub at Alexander Platz. From Weissensee and Pankow they bit in toward the big Sportspalast, where Adolf Hitler had recited much of the history that now had turned to bitter dust...
...stragglers" and all males over 13 were ordered to report for Volksstürm duty. The defense of the city was laid out in three zones: 1) the suburbs, including Potsdam, Erkner, Bernau, Lankwitz; 2) the outskirts of the city proper; 3) an inner citadel based on the Potsdamer Platz and Unter den Linden. Even the zoo was fortified...
...tough summer for Eisenhower and his staff, quartered in a neighborhood of hotels and flats in London, on a square dubbed "Eisenhower Platz." The job of preparing this U.S. Army for an invasion was no sinecure. The E.T.O. (European Theater of Operations), official tag for the 1942 A.E.F., was an amateur army of mechanics, salesmen, bartenders, boxers, bond salesmen, cowboys, lawyers. How many there were was always a guarded secret, but convoys dumped thousands upon thousands on Britain's shores. They had learned something about tactics in maneuvers back home, but they were still far from ready for combat...
Last week, moving into Strasbourg with a crew of experienced pacifiers, he immediately set the machinery of re-Germanization in motion. German became the official language, German postage stamps were introduced, a customs union with the Reich was established, the picturesque Esplanade in Metz became Platz des Führers, Mulhouse's Neuquartierplatz became Reichsmarschal Göring-Platz, posters went up depicting a gentle Nazi caressing a forsaken Alsatian child...