Word: zhukov
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Eisenhower's red-letter day in London was only one day in the week's outpouring of honors. Two days before, Soviet Russia had sent Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov to Frankfurt am Main to present Ike with the top Soviet military decoration...
...Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov said he soon would welcome foreign newsmen to Berlin. He killed a wild report that the Red Army was mustering in 15-year-olds by saying it was considering demobilization instead...
...hours and 45 minutes it was all over. Eisenhower, Montgomery and Delattre had landed at Tempelhof, met Zhukov in the Berlin suburb of Köpenick, signed the papers...
...Russians clearly were not ready to begin cooperative control in their area, and as usual their way of saying so irritated the other occupiers. But the representatives of the western powers on the whole felt better rather than worse after the first meeting. Marshal Zhukov showed them every courtesy in Berlin, visited (and decorated) General Eisenhower at Frankfurt five days later. Some of the U.S. officials got the impression that a grievous lack of administrative personnel and preparation, rather than a deliberate secretiveness, accounted at least in part for the Soviet reluctance to admit U.S. and British representatives...
...Marshal Zhukov told Allied correspondents visiting Berlin that 1) Hitler married his blonde companion, Eva Braun, two days before Berlin fell; 2) no identifiable trace of Hitler had been found...