Word: poznan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eisenhower was just back from the Roer River, where he had launched what his foes called the greatest of all Western Front offensives (see below). In the east, the Russians were beefing up their northern and southern flanks, wiping out German pockets of resistance in Poznan and other centers behind their lines...
Over the Border. Zhukov had also made dramatic advances. By this week his waves had lapped entirely around Poznan, 180 miles west of Warsaw. Two widening spears thrust over the Reich's borders, less than 80 miles from Frankfort on the Oder...
Zhukov's forces, heading straight for Poznan, had already covered about half the distance from Warsaw to the defense line the Germans have built along their 1939 border. Konev's army was already on German soil in Silesia, was within 28 miles of Breslau and pressed close upon Oppeln, both on the Oder and key points in the Reich's second most important , coal and steel area. Crossings there would set up a flank for future development of a strike to the inner Reich...