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Deutsch: Grenzen der Besatzungszonen in Deutschland, 1947. Die Gebiete östlich der Oder-Neiße-Grenze, unter polnischer und sowjetischer Verwaltung/Annexion, sowie das Saar-Protektorat sind cremefarben dargestellt.
The lead elements of the two Allied army groups met on 1 April 1945, east of the Ruhr, to create the encirclement of 317,000 German troops to their west. While the bulk of the U.S. forces advanced east towards the Elbe river, 18 U.S. divisions remained behind to destroy Army Group B. The reduction of the German pocket began on 1 April by the U.S.
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AS THIS MAP HAS WRONG BORDERS, PLEASE USE UPDATED MAP: File:Deutschland Besatzungszonen 8 Jun 1947 - 22 Apr 1949.svg Description Deutschland Besatzungszonen - 1945 1946.svg English: Allied occupation zones in Germany after 02/21/1947 after Lippe became part of Northrhine-Westphalia
27 April — The Western Allies flatly reject any offer of surrender by Germany other than unconditional on all fronts. 29 April — Adolf Hitler marries his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a closed civil ceremony in the Berlin Führerbunker, on the same day that American forces liberate Dachau.
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The Battle of Okinawa began. 50,000 American troops landed on Okinawa against little initial resistance and established a 13-kilometre (8.1 mi) beachhead. [1]The Japanese ocean liner-turned-hospital ship Awa Maru was passing through the Taiwan Strait when the American submarine USS Queenfish (SS-393) mistook it for a destroyer, torpedoed and sank it.
c. Beginning of February 1945: 23 April 1945 (encirclement of Berlin complete on 27 April 1945) 2 May 1945 1 week and 2 days Called the Berlin Defense Area. Bobruysk, Army Group Rear Area Command Bobruysk offensive: Adolf Hamann (POW) Soviet Armed Forces Workers' and Peasants' Red Army 1st Belorussian Front. 65th Army; 22 June 1944