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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...
Over Again. Zhukov had linked his power in the north with that of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky's Second White Russian Army. Russian spearheads passed the Reich's borders, cut the main Berlin-Danzig railroad, surrounded Schneidemühl, an anchor point on the prewar defense wall Germany had built facing Poland. The main objective: Stettin...
Friends & Enemies. Most profound is the sharp increase in hatred of Germans. Perhaps Americans at home still look to ward Japan with deeper hatred, but front line troops in Europe turn their hate to ward the Reich, now that they have struggled with it in bitter combat. That sharpening of hatred is accompanied by increasing concern over what to do with Germany, and by a fellow feeling for the Russian Army, which still kills the most Germans...
...command posts and airfield barracks. G.I.s agree that it is impossible to exterminate this foe. The next best thing, many of them believe, is to carve Germany into numerous smaller states and then keep permanent guard to make sure that the Germanic states do not reunite into a powerful Reich. Perhaps this is not farseeing, but the G.I.s have not yet heard a better plan...
...Poland and the Reich, his gigantic armies were (in Winston Churchill's feral phrase) "tearing the guts out of the German Army." In the world at large, his ambiguous political purposes were giving the creeps to practically everybody except professional Communists and those men of good will for whose professional unrealism (when it turns up among Russians) Stalin had always saved his most scathing barbs...