Germany, Battle for
Germany, Battle for (1945).During the 1945 battle for Germany, the Americans effectively led the World War II Allied effort in the West; but in accommodating the Soviets, whose Red Army was invading from the East, they won military victory at a great geopolitical cost.
As their armies recovered from the temporary reverses suffered in late 1944 during the liberation of France and the Battle of the Bulge, the American, British, Canadian, and other generals agreed upon certain key objectives of the forthcoming campaign for Germany. By late January 1945, the Anglo‐American armies had 4 million men, two‐thirds of them American; the Soviet armies numbered nearly 7 million. The Western Allies were preparing to seize the Ruhr, home of much of the German armaments industry. The North German plain with its Baltic ports was also a major target. The Allies further desired to strike at...
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