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...would not. Although his frontal thrust toward the heart of the Reich made heartening headlines, military analysts watched his northern wing with increasing interest. That wing had probed to within 20 miles of Stettin. Paradoxically it was a greater threat to Berlin than the shorter thrust through the twin Oder River fortresses of Frankfurt and Küstrin, where the Germans had chosen to make an armored stand...
Gleiwitz was also typical of the Russians' complexity of maneuver all along the front. The industrial basin had not been Konev's only aim. More important was his second objective: crossing the unfrozen Oder River...
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...
...possibilities of the Konev and Zhukov drives were tremendous. Konev presumably had the power to expand his Silesian grip toward richer industrial prizes in Czechoslovakia. But his grip on the Oder was a strategic threat. Linked with Zhukov's advance, it could be forged into the familiar pattern of Red Army bridgeheads established in force far from the ultimate objective. Thus the Sandomierz grip on the upper Vistula had been the springboard for the present offensive. Thus the crossing of the Danube far south in Yugoslavia had brought the toppling of Budapest. So the Oder-the last wide ditch...
...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...