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At the beginning of 1945, World War II was drawing to a bitter end. Allied forces had crossed the Rhine and were quickly advancing into German territory, while the Red Army was steam rolling through eastern Germany. Marshal Zhukov himself …

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At the beginning of 1945, World War II was drawing to a bitter end. Allied forces had crossed the Rhine and were quickly advancing into German territory, while the Red Army was steam rolling through eastern Germany. Marshal Zhukov himself commandered the Soviet spearhead aimed at Berlin. Massive Soviet forces of tanks and guard infantry were marching on the German capital, which Stalin’s propaganda had dubbed ‘Berlog’ - the Beast’s Lair. Bloody last stand battles raged between the Red Army and the desperate German forces defending their capital. Deep in the reinforced concrete below the broken city, the German Fuehrer Adolf Hitler continued to descend into madness, moving nonexistent army divisions across maps as he put all of his hope into the illusion of Wunderwaffen - secret weapons capable of beating back the overwhelmingly superior Allied and Soviet forces and winning the war. Unfortunately for Hitler, the secret weapons never materialized. With their backs literally against the wall, the ragtag defenders of Berlin were forced to rely on blood and iron. Wehrmacht soldiers, press ganged old men, armed Hitler youth and foreign Waffen SS fanatics desperately tried to stem the Red flood, hoping to beat back the aggressors even at the cost of their own lives. All to no avail - the Red Army was triumphant, liberating Berlin by the sheer force of their numerical supremacy. What, however, if Hitler’s Wunderwaffe had become reality, even if only to the least degree? What if German manufacturers had been able to finalize one of their ‘futuristic’ weapons, one that in reality had passed the testing stage and was in actual production? Would those last giants of hubris and steel have been able to prolong the Reich’s existence, even if just for a few days or weeks?

Berlin, Germany

The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II.

Wikipedia: Battle of Berlin

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