To the Gates of Berlin

At this point the war in Europe was nearly over. The Russian Forces were pouring into Germany from the Baltic to the Czechoslovakian border. The remaining German Forces and Townsfolk were called upon again and again to stem the tide …

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At this point the war in Europe was nearly over. The Russian Forces were pouring into Germany from the Baltic to the Czechoslovakian border. The remaining German Forces and Townsfolk were called upon again and again to stem the tide of the Russian Hordes. The so called German Military Formations were merely paper Divisions. They were made up of a mixture of weary combat units, old men and boys. At Spremberg, one of these rag-tag forces held the defensive line. With crack Faratroops to stiffen the backbone of the Volksstrum, the Germans were now defending the soil of the Fatherland. Their reserve and guile were not enough, Berlin, 120 kilometers to the northwest, fell May 5, 1945.

Spremberg, Germany

The Battle of the Seelow Heights was part of the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation. A pitched battle, it was one of the last assaults on large entrenched defensive positions of the Second World War. It was fought over three days, from 16–19 April 1945. Close to 1,000,000 Soviet soldiers of theist Belorussian Front, commanded by Marshal Georgi Zhukov, attacked the position known as the "Gates of Berlin". They were opposed by about 110,000 soldiers of the German 9th Army, commanded by General Theodor Busse, as part of the Army Group Vistula.

Wikipedia: Battle of the Seelow Heights

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