Martin Antonenko
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Sunday April 1, 1945
Eastern Front:
The "fortress" Glogau (today: Glogow), a city on the Oder surrenders today, after the German defenders had failed to escape capture by a surprising sally ...:
Here - on the eastern bank of the Oder, Soviet troops stop and prepare their final attack on Berlin.
Western Front:
The trap closes today!
Troops of the 1st American Army under General Courtney Hodges ...
... meet with the units of the American 9th Army of General William Simpson ...
... east of the Ruhr area near Lippstadt and form the "Ruhrkessel" ...:
300,000 soldiers from Army Group B, the remains of a total of 21 divisions and millions of civilians are trapped in an area that was partially destroyed by previous bombings.
The southern front of the boiler was the river Sieg, in the west the Rhine is the natural frontier.
The German commander, Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model ...
... shares the fate of his soldiers - and orders them to continue fighting, although he knows that this will only delay the inevitable end of a path.
The smaller eastern part, including a heavy tank destroyer company with "Jagdtigern" ...
... will surrender on April 15th in the Iserlohn area, after most of the vehicles have been shot down or left out of gasoline.
The commanding general of the remains of German LIII. Army Corps, Lieutenant General Fritz Bayerlein ...
... will surrender at Menden in the Sauerland. In some cities, for example Hohenlimburg and Hagen, there will still be fights in places until April 17.
The western part of the boiler in the Bergisches Land region and near Düsseldorf and Duisburg, where Model itself commands, will continue to resist until April 21.
We'll come back to that!
Behind the troops fighting in the cauldron, SS and Gestapo murders hundreds of foreign forced laborers, opponents of the German regime, deserters and prisoners of justice ...:
Field Marshal Model not only knew about it, he had even issued an order to deliver the above-mentioned groups of people to the Gestapo "for review".
Southwestern Front:
French troops also marched into Germany on that day. The 1st French Army under General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny ...
...cross the Rhine near Philippsburg...:
The Reich:
On this day, Hitler and his closest frollowers finally move to the "Führer bunker" under the Reich Chancellery. The bunker is his last headquarters...:
The next picture - one of the last of Hitler and only one of three showing him in the "Führer bunker" - shows the dictator greeting Generalfeldmarschall Ferdinand Schörner ...:
Hitler's last workplace is reproduced in the Berlin Bunker Museum. The only personal item he brought with him hangs over the desk:
A portrait of the Prussian King Friedrich II by Anton Graff (1736-1813)...:
USA:
The effects of the war can now be felt in the USA too!
The weekly meat ration per inhabitant is reduced by 12 percent ...
Eastern Front:
The "fortress" Glogau (today: Glogow), a city on the Oder surrenders today, after the German defenders had failed to escape capture by a surprising sally ...:
Here - on the eastern bank of the Oder, Soviet troops stop and prepare their final attack on Berlin.
Western Front:
The trap closes today!
Troops of the 1st American Army under General Courtney Hodges ...
... meet with the units of the American 9th Army of General William Simpson ...
... east of the Ruhr area near Lippstadt and form the "Ruhrkessel" ...:
300,000 soldiers from Army Group B, the remains of a total of 21 divisions and millions of civilians are trapped in an area that was partially destroyed by previous bombings.
The southern front of the boiler was the river Sieg, in the west the Rhine is the natural frontier.
The German commander, Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model ...
... shares the fate of his soldiers - and orders them to continue fighting, although he knows that this will only delay the inevitable end of a path.
The smaller eastern part, including a heavy tank destroyer company with "Jagdtigern" ...
... will surrender on April 15th in the Iserlohn area, after most of the vehicles have been shot down or left out of gasoline.
The commanding general of the remains of German LIII. Army Corps, Lieutenant General Fritz Bayerlein ...
... will surrender at Menden in the Sauerland. In some cities, for example Hohenlimburg and Hagen, there will still be fights in places until April 17.
The western part of the boiler in the Bergisches Land region and near Düsseldorf and Duisburg, where Model itself commands, will continue to resist until April 21.
We'll come back to that!
Behind the troops fighting in the cauldron, SS and Gestapo murders hundreds of foreign forced laborers, opponents of the German regime, deserters and prisoners of justice ...:
Field Marshal Model not only knew about it, he had even issued an order to deliver the above-mentioned groups of people to the Gestapo "for review".
Southwestern Front:
French troops also marched into Germany on that day. The 1st French Army under General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny ...
...cross the Rhine near Philippsburg...:
The Reich:
On this day, Hitler and his closest frollowers finally move to the "Führer bunker" under the Reich Chancellery. The bunker is his last headquarters...:
The next picture - one of the last of Hitler and only one of three showing him in the "Führer bunker" - shows the dictator greeting Generalfeldmarschall Ferdinand Schörner ...:
Hitler's last workplace is reproduced in the Berlin Bunker Museum. The only personal item he brought with him hangs over the desk:
A portrait of the Prussian King Friedrich II by Anton Graff (1736-1813)...:
USA:
The effects of the war can now be felt in the USA too!
The weekly meat ration per inhabitant is reduced by 12 percent ...
