[henkster]

No German Lage West map in the archives today. There will be one tomorrow, and I'm guessing it isn't pretty.

There is a complete map for Army Group Vistula in the archives, and it most definitely is not pretty for the Germans. All of the action is in Pomerania between Stettin and Danzig, and I've broken it into four maps going from west to east. These maps cover the right wing of Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front and all of Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front as they clear Pomerania. The German maps have a lot of frantic pencil markings, showing a great deal of confusion and disorganization in a battle they are losing by a large margin. While the Germans are not surrendering en masse the way they are against the Americans in the west, they aren't putting up effective resistance here either. The rout is on.

[EternalVigilance]

Wow.

[PapaNew]

In the map on Page Two of today’s Times there’s a large gap between Trier (which Patton, after taking it, was told he wasn’t supposed to take it (top-down management, even in war, can be pretty stupid sometimes)), and Cologne, way to the north. The map shows no major Allied operations in this gap. Maybe the Nazi’s missed an opportunity to at least prolong the war?

[colorado tanker]

Wow, those maps show a complete mess for the Germans. I don't recall seeing anything like it other than the U.S. pursuit across France last summer. That may even have been more orderly.

Any translation on the big scary comments?