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Bloody Prelude. In the 17-by-6-mile Oder bridgehead directly east of Berlin, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, the Nazis said, had packed some 72,000 Red Army soldiers and more than 400 tanks. They clawed their way through Kustrin fortress, reached within 31 miles of the capital. But this, added the Germans, was only the prelude to the real Battle of Berlin...
...Behind Zhukov the armies of the Second and Third White Russian Fronts hammered down the resistance pockets the Germans had left in East Prussia and the Polish Corridor. They took the town of Brandenburg on the east and neared Braunsberg on the west sides of the pocket below Konigsberg. In twin battles to the west they fought for the ports of Danzig and Gdynia...
...knew better than Berliners that Berlin would need all this and more. The Red Army's Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, though striking hard, had yet to launch his hardest blows. South of Berlin, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's forces smashed from Oder bases toward the Czechoslovakian border. North of Berlin, Zhukov drove for the old Baltic port of Stettin, tried to tear loose this anchor of the Oder River line...
Grown suddenly alarmed, the German radio called Zhukov's attack "murderous." Soviet formations, in actions reminiscent of Belleau Wood, squeezed the Germans from the Klützer forest southeast of the city. They converged on Altdamm, four miles east of the city. Along a six-mile stretch the Russians stood looking across the mile-wide river marshes at the smoking shambles of Stettin...
With each victory the Red lines shortened. More & more troops turned away, painted "to Berlin" and "to Stettin" on their tanks and vehicles, and hurried to join Zhukov. These were the men Marshal Zhukov awaited, the men to strengthen his lines for the final blow through the Oder defenses to Berlin and beyond...