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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...
Last week Poznan and Arnswalde fell. Poznan, Poland's fourth city, was a notable victory, even though it was 100 miles behind the front facing Berlin. At Poznan the Red Army reported having killed 25,000 Nazis and captured 23,000. Arnswalde was significant as a guardian outpost of Stettin, 40 miles to the northwest...
...latest Red Army offensive, many German "hedgehog" strong points had been overrun, but many had stood as outposts for a possible Nazi counter-drive. Among them had been Poznan, Torun, Schneidernühl, Arnswalde, Grudziadz, Breslau. Of these pockets of resistance, only two still stood this week: Grudziadz (on the Polish Corridor approaches to Danzig) and Breslau-and both appeared doomed...
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...