4月16日，美军进抵纳粹党经常开群众大会的城市纽伦堡的那一天，朱可夫率领的俄国军队从奥得河上的桥头堡出击，4月21日下午抵达柏林郊外。

• On April 16, the day American troops reached Nuremberg, the city of the great Nazi Party rallies, Zhukov's Russian armies broke loose from their bridgeheads over the Oder, and on the afternoon of April 21 they reached the outskirts of Berlin.