Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...dazed Volksstürmer, the battle-shocked Wehrmacht regulars surrendered now in larger numbers. But the fanatics fought on. Perhaps they meant to fight from the deep basement of Hitler's chancellery, from behind the heroic statues of Prussians in the Tiergarten's Victory Avenue, from all around the 150-year-old Brandenburger Tor and its surmounting green-grey copper Quadriga of Victory. Defense Commissioner Joseph Goebbels screamed his final exhortations to stand and die, then, reportedly, fled. The Hamburg radio shrilled that Adolf Hitler himself had chosen to stay in his capital at the head...
...Admiral's Women. The Wehrmacht fought savagely in the north, where...
Doctor's Post-Mortem. Nürnberg, in whose great stadium the Nazi Party used to assemble in vain glory once a year, had been fanatically defended by Volksstürmer, remnants of the 17th SS Division, elements of 32 different Wehrmacht outfits. After five days of desperate fighting, it fell, on Hitler's 56th birthday. The town (but not the stadium) was 95% ruined. Correspondents who had followed the Allied armies across Germany all the way from Aachen said they had never seen such total destruction...
...Marshals Alexander M. Vasilevsky and Konstantin K. Rokossovsky. which had flattened the East Prussia and Pomerania pockets. To the south, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's big First Ukrainian Army was launched to hurl itself toward Dresden. Against all this massive weight was the largest force the shredded Wehrmacht could muster: perhaps 900,000 men in formidable defense positions. But greater German forces had failed to stop the Red Army when its full weight was catapulted into action...