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Final positions of the Western Allied and Soviet armies, May 1945 Allied occupied areas, 15 May 1945, with territory under Allied control on 1 May 1945 in pink and later Allied gain in red The Line of Contact marked the farthest advance of American, British, French, and Soviet armies into German controlled territory at the end of World War II ...
The Western Allied invasion of Germany was coordinated by the Western Allies during the final months of hostilities in the European theatre of World War II.In preparation for the Allied invasion of Germany east of the Rhine, a series of offensive operations were designed to seize and capture its east and west banks: Operation Veritable and Operation Grenade in February 1945, and Operation ...
Allied aims with respect to postwar Germany were first laid out at the Yalta Conference, where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin signed an agreement stating that they intended to: disarm and disband the German armed forces; break up the German General Staff; remove or destroy all German military equipment; eliminate or control German industry ...
As the columns reached the western side of Germany they ran into the advancing western Allied armies. For some, this brought liberation. Others were not so lucky. They were marched towards the Baltic Sea, where Nazis were rumoured to be using POWs as human shields and hostages. It was later estimated that a large number of POWs had marched over ...
The campaign in Northwest Europe had commenced on 6 June 1944 (), with Operation Overlord, the Allied Normandy landings. [2]By early September, the Allied forces had reached the Dutch and German borders in the north and the Moselle in the south, [3] but the advance came to a halt due to logistical difficulties, particularly fuel shortages, and stiffening German resistance. [4]
The Ruhr pocket was a battle of encirclement that took place in April 1945, on the Western Front near the end of World War II in Europe, in the Ruhr Area of Germany. Some 317,000 German troops were taken prisoner along with 24 generals. The Americans suffered 10,000 casualties including 2,000 killed or missing.
The Allied disposition in western Europe by March 1945. By March 1945, the Allied armies had advanced into Germany and had reached the River Rhine.The Rhine was a formidable natural obstacle to the Allied advance, [12] but if breached would allow the Allies to access the North German Plain and ultimately advance on Berlin and other major cities in Northern Germany.
A British, American and Canadian Allied Expeditionary Force landed in northern France on June 6, 1944 to begin the liberation of Western Europe from occupation by Nazi Germany. [3] Eisenhower's People of Western Europe speech, named after its opening words, was addressed directly to the people of occupied countries. It informed them of the ...