The soldiers of the Red Army identified the Reichstag as the
victor's prize to be taken in Berlin. Stalin had promised Berlin to
Marshal Zhukov, but the latter's blundering in the preliminary
breakthrough battle threw his timetable and forced a complete
change of plan for reducing the city. Stalin used the opportunity
to chasten his subordinates by allowing Marshal Koniev, Zhukov's
rival, to introduce one of his tank armies into the competition
unknown to Zhukov. Abandoning the rest of his army group, Koniev
personally directed this army in the hope of grabbing the prize.
Meanwhile, the Germans improvised a defence with inadequate
resources. The remains of General Weidling's 56th Panzer Corps were
reluctantly dragged into the city in a futile attempt to prolong
the life of the Third Reich, whose leaders squabbled and schemed in
their underground shelters, a world apart from the reality outside,
where their subjects suffered and died unheeded. Ten days later,
after the successive suicides of Hitler and Goebbels, the survivors
chose between breakout and surrender.
This account of the battle lays the many myths created by Soviet
propaganda after the event and details what exactly happened as the
Red Army and the Allies raced to be the first to the Reichstag.
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