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No, it wasn’t the Normandy Landings though that certainly accelerated the death of Nazi Germany. We just commemorated the 78th anniversary of the landings which opened a second front against

The death throes of the Third Reich were not pretty and took many lives. Key Point: Berlin was doomed, yet they continued to resist. Here is how Nazi Germany finally came to its brutal end. In January 12, 1945, Hitler received the news he had been dreading—the Soviet Red Army had launched its winter offensive. He wasted no time. Within four days Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, commander in chief West, received the following order: “CinC West is to withdraw the following formations from op...

Hitler thought he knew better than the generals. Heres What You Need to Remember: In the final analysis, Hitler would have done well to heed Guderian’s advice to commit the Sixth Panzer Army to the defense of the Oder line to slow the Russian advance on Berlin. Georg Maier, deputy chief of staff for operations for the Sixth Panzer Army, offered a fitting summation of the failed offensive. “Time, pressure, poor weather, extremely difficult terrain conditions, [and] Hitler’s impatience joi...