The German Collapse

This will be the last history post of this blog. I shall never post any again..The German collapse, where it will be the end of World War 2..Let us start..

1.The allies were ready for the final attack on German but they focused to bombard the German but they focused to bombard the Germans land first..

2.RAF launched a series of aerial attack on Dresden with 800 warplanes in the night of 13th-14th February 1945 and continued by the U.S 8th Airforce with 400 warplanes in daylight..

3.The motive of these raid was alledgely to protect Soviet advance to entered Berlin's outskirt before storms the most beautiful city in Europe,Berlin..

4.Patton's 3rd Army reached Rhine at Koblenz early in March..

5.Hodges's 1st Army seized Remagen bridge at Rhine River..

6.Simpson's 9th Army reaached Rhine River near Dusseldorf..

7.All 3 armies were ordered to mark time until Montgomery's grand assault against the Germans troops position strength along the Rhine River..

8.At last, night of 23rd-24th March 1945, Montgomery attack by 25 divisions was launched off the Rhine River near Wesel.

9.Let us see the movement of Allies armies..

a)Canadian 1st Army:Drove ahead Netherlands.

b)British 2nd Army:Northeastward to Lubeck and to Wismar on to Baltic..

c)US 1st Army:Swept forward across Germany..

d)US 9th Army:Magdeburg through Leipzig..

e)US 3rd Army:To the border of Czechslovakia..

f)French 1st Army and US 7th Army:Drove to Austria..

10.March 28th 1945, Guderian replaced by Hans Kreb as chief of the general staff..

11.The western Allies reached Elbe River,60 miles from Berlin on 11th April 1945..

12.The eastern Allies reached Vienna on 6th April 1945 and took Konigsberg three days later.Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front and Konev's 1st Ukranian Front crossed Neisse River and within a week they were driving into the suburbs of Berlin..

13.By April 25th 1945,the armies of Zhukov and Konev had completely encircled Berlin and on the sameday they linked up with the Americans and British on the Elbe River..

14.During the night of 29th April 1945,Hitler married his meistress,Eva Braun and on 30th April1945 he comitted suicide with Eva in the ruins of Chancellery as the advancing Red Army troops were less than half a mile from his bunker complex..

15.The Germans troops willing to surrender to the Western Allies rather than to the Soviets..

16.On the Italian front,4 Germans divisions were transferred from Kesselring's command to the western front and on April 1945 the thin German defences in Italy was broken by an allied attack..

17.A surrender document was been signed on 29th April 1945 while Hitler still alive..

18.The surrender of German forces in northwestern Europe was signed at Montgomery's headquarter on Luneburg Heath on May 4th 1945 and a further document covered all German forces was signed with more ceremony at Eisenhower's headquarters at Reims,in the presence of US,British,and French delegations.

19.At midnight on 8th May 1945,the war in Europe was officially over..