The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-27
ENTIRE REICH
 LAID OPEN TO
 RUSSIAN ARMY
BY ROBERT MUSEL

LOnQOn, January ~. (UP) - Nazi broadcasts reported that Marshal Greg ory K. Zhukov's beeline drive toward Berlin had reached the Obra river in the Ger man border area 94 miles east of the capital, claiming it had been checked" there.
 Berlin said the First White Russian Army had reached the German-PoliSh border both northwest and south west of enveloped and be- leaguered Poznan, 45 miles east of the upper Obra, a tributary which flows into the Warthe at SchWerln, 1o miles east of Berlin.
 "zhukov's tank vanguards have been checked on the river Obra 45 miles west of Poznan," a Berlin broadcast said. That is the rivers nearest point to Poznan, and 1t el- bows sharply westward with no other natural barrier short Of Scher- In.
 A few miles to the northeast. other Russian forces were reporGeo to have crossed to the north banq of the NetZe river east of Schneide- muhl, 50 miles north oi Noznan and 90 miles southeast of Stettin.
 The Transocean News agency said the First Ukrainian Army in Silesia apparently was trying to envelcp Breslau. and was trying to cross the Oder on a broad front north east of the city.
 A Moscow broadcast said the en- tire eastern front from the Carpa- thian to the Baltic had collapsed, laying open the Reich to the Red Army. It called on the Germans to rise up against Adolf Hitler.
 The broadcast came as the .Soviets sealed off all East Prussia and It's garrison of O,0OO Nazi troops. with breakthrough to the Baltic, storm ed the last defenses of Kcnigsberg. Danzig, Breslau and Poznan, and pushed to within an official 136 and an uncondrmed 93 miles of Berlin.
 The Breslau. Danzig and Koni9s- berg radios went off the air, indicat- ing that the fall of those fortress cities may be imminent.
 The Moscow broadcast proclaim ing the complete collapse" the Ia hyr n crNTlsnc- man for the Soviet-Sponsored free Germany National Committee, BEG and American EGG monitors report ed.
 The communication line between the industrial area of Upper Silesia and the Reich one of the decisive factors in Hitler'S conduct of the war is already cut,' Major Gen. eral Martin Lattman, the German spokesman, told his countrymen.
 Criminal Madness
 The military situation demands that decision should be taken Ill order to put an end to this criminal madness he said. "A patriotic and national officer must lead the fight of the army and the people against Hitler
 He told the German people they must choose between 'perishing' with Hitler or saving their nation by turning against him.
 Lattman did not name any of the several points" at which he said the Red Army was across the Oder but Stockholm dispatches quoted the German high command as say ing that the Soviets had forced the barrier "at many points" along 75-mile front from Breslau south.
 Though German and neutral sources on several occasions in the past few days have placed the Red Army on the west bank of the Oder. Lattman's broadcast was the first report to that effect to emanate from Moscow.
 The official German DNB Agency said Berlin was looking with ten- sion toward the east, where Soviet tank spearheads have approached the border of Bradenburg province" 90-odd miles from the capital
 "Thre are no signs of panic, but peoples faces are very serious and conversation centers on the war sit- uation," DNB said. one newspaper described the situation in these words: Hard days and nights of the greatest threat demand the ut most and strong nerves, pathetic slo- gans are like false money in such . fatal hour"
 German broadcastS said the Soviets were approaching the from
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