 They were part of Wenck's XX Corps and were made up of men from the officer training schools, making them some of the best units the Germans had left.They covered a distance of about , before being halted at the tip of Lake Schwielow south-west of Potsdam and still from Berlin.In the evening of 28 April, the BBC broadcast a Reuters news report about Heinrich Himmler's attempted negotiations with the western Allies through Count Folke Bernadotte in Luebeck.