If you have to compress the whole battle into one scene you will be hard pressed to show it. Maybe you could show the most dramatic part of the action,in my opinion. The Russians set up a scenario were the Germans were forced to use a narrow escape corridor that passed though the town of Halbe down the main street,in fact.
The Soviets knew pretty much when and where the break-out would go down and set up an impressive ambush with Infantry and plenty of T-34s and Ratsch-bums. There was a log barrier across the main street that the lead elements of the armored group reached in the dark. The lead tank was a TigerII,followed by a few more Tigers. It was hit and burned out,lighting up the area for all hell to break loose. The German forces were intermingled with a whole bunch of civilians and German soldiers that had thrown away their weapons and this mob panicked. The result was a slaughter that was epic. Follow on German units rwached the scene later and said that all during 5 years of bloody combat they had never seen such a large amount of bodies in such a small area.
Units that escaped used a detour around Halbe that led through small sandy woods roads through the pine trees,harrased by the russians all the way.
HTH,J

Halbe doesn't look quite as difficult to reproduce as I first thought. Any idea if there was a good number of Russian infantry in the mess as well? There's never a great deal of information about the Russians... Looks like I should start thinking about drawing out a general idea of what I'm going to do.
Thanks again
-Conor