Western Allied invasion of Germany | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-17

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00:03:29 1 Order of battle
00:03:38 1.1 Allied forces
00:07:07 1.2 German forces
00:09:06 2 Eisenhower's plans
00:14:06 3 Occupation process
00:15:39 4 Operations
00:19:24 4.1 U.S. 12th Army Group crosses the Rhine (22 March)
00:23:01 4.2 U.S. 6th Army Group crosses the Rhine (26 March)
00:23:52 4.3 British 21st Army Group plans iOperation Plunder/i
00:30:12 4.4 Montgomery launches iOperation Plunder/i (23 March)
00:37:03 4.5 German Army Group B surrounded in the Ruhr pocket (1 April)
00:44:59 4.6 Eisenhower switches his main thrust to U.S. 12th Army Group front (28 March)
00:47:40 4.7 Ruhr pocket cleared (18 April)
00:51:09 4.8 U.S. 12th Army Group prepares its final thrust
00:53:36 4.9 U.S. 12th Army Group advances to the Elbe (9 April)
00:58:46 4.10 U.S. First Army makes first contact with the advancing Soviets (25 April)
01:00:02 4.11 U.S. 6th Army Group heads for Austria
01:04:43 4.12 Link-up of U.S. forces in Germany and Italy (4 May)
01:06:06 4.13 British 21st Army Group crosses the Elbe (29 April)
01:08:14 4.14 German surrender (8 May)
01:09:26 5 Analysis



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The Western Allied invasion of Germany was coordinated by the Western Allies during the final months of hostilities in the European theatre of World War II. In preparation for the Allied invasion of Germany, a series of offensive operations were designed to seize and capture the east and west bank of the Rhine River. Operation Veritable and Operation Grenade in February 1945, and Operation Lumberjack and Operation Undertone in March 1945. Allied invasion of Germany started with the Western Allies crossing the Rhine River on 22 March 1945 before fanning out and overrunning all of western Germany from the Baltic in the north to Austria in the south before the Germans surrendered on 8 May 1945. This is known as the "Central Europe Campaign" in United States military histories.
By early 1945, events favored the Allied forces in Europe. On the Western Front the Allies had been fighting in Germany with campaigns against the Siegfried Line since the Battle of Aachen and the Battle of Hurtgen Forest in late 1944 and by January 1945 had pushed the Germans back to their starting points during the Battle of the Bulge. The failure of this offensive exhausted Germany's strategic reserve, leaving it ill-prepared to resist the final Allied campaigns in Europe. Additional losses in the Rhineland further weakened the German Army, leaving shattered remnants of units to defend the east bank of the Rhine. On 7 March, the Allies seized the last remaining intact bridge across the Rhine at Remagen, and had established a large bridgehead on the river's east bank. During Operation Lumberjack, Operation Plunder and Operation Undertone in March 1945, German casualties during February–March 1945 are estimated at 400,000 men, including 280,000 men captured as prisoners of war.On the Eastern Front, the Soviet Red Army (including the Polish Armed Forces in the East under Soviet command) simultaneously with the Western Allies, had liberated most of Poland and began their offensive into Eastern Germany in February 1945, and by March were within striking distance of Berlin. The initial advance into Romania, the First Jassy–Kishinev Offensive in April and May 1944 was a failure; the second Offensive in August succeeded. The Red Army also pushed deep into Hungary (the Budapest Offensive) and eastern Czechoslovakia and temporarily halted at what is now the modern German border on the Oder–Neisse line. These rapid advances on the Eastern Front destroyed additional veteran German combat units and severely limited German Führer Adolf Hitler's ability to reinforce his Rhine defenses. As such, with the Western Allies making fina ...