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| Moving In On Berlin |
In a matter of weeks, France was liberated and by August 24th, Paris had fallen back into Allied hands. (More information can be found on the Invasion of Normandy and Liberation of France pages in the France section). At the same time as the liberation of France, Holland and Belgium were being reoccupied by the Allies. German troops were pressed back into Saar and Aachen quickly. The Allies decided to begin the main attack against Germany on the industrial north, but failed because of the distance that the paratroopers had been dropped. In December, Hitler's army made their last offensive sending their troops in the same direction as when he had initially attacked France originally. This act, due to Hitler's weak army, caused the eastern front of the German area to collapse. This would eventually mean that Germany would be invaded in a matter of weeks.
The Soviet Union launched an attack on the east, and by 1943 they had recaptured a majority of what the Germans had taken. In the offensive move of the Union, they went back into East Prussia. By February 1945 the Soviet Union line was fifty miles from Berlin and the 14th Dresden, the last line of defense for Berlin, was taken. February 11th brought the liberation of Budapest and on April 6th, Vienna gained it's independence. Despite all of these constant attacks on the Eastern front, Germany was able to stabilize their Eastern army. It was now up to the Western army to make the next breakthrough.
The Allies began their attack in March and in a month's time they had made it across the Rhine and Ruhr rivers leaving only the Elbe to protect the German forces. The Allies quickly began their attack on this area in April. In a matter of days the 1st and 3rd Army had been able to defeat the German forces there and able to move on to attack the Alps and Brenner Pass. Eisenhower thought that since the Soviets would clearly be able to capture Berlin, he would stop any German resistance in Bavaria, Austria, or Czechoslovakia.
The Downfall of the Weimer Republic
The Annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia
Beginning of the End for the Third Reich
Moving in On Berlin