Spent short winter day of January, 26, 1945 front-rank detachment of 5th shock army crossed the border of Germany - "студебеккеры" was born on "Рейхсштрассе № 1" to Berlin by peaked фольварков and neatly lined fields. Seemed, the counted weeks or even days stayed till victory. However to Berlin soviet troops broke in only 3 months after - agony of the Third Reich appeared long and difficult, hitlerites fought to last straw of blood, still human resources that Germans so saved in the pore of блицкригов were now abandoned under гусеницы of "тридцатьчетверок" and ИСов - the parts knocked together and badly prepared ordered to the slaughter in hotshot counter-offensives and abandoned defended without hopes on a rescue in "cities-fortresses".Висло-одерская, восточно-померанская, Верхне-силезская to the operation, assault of "industrial fortress" of Кюстрин and tense fight for the places of arms on Oder - in the book of leading military historian all stages of bitter three months Battle are lighted up for Germany during that soviet troops milled the last backlogs of Hitler and went out on approaches to Berlin.