Armageddon | Downfall | The Road To Berlin Part VI @Armageddon4145 | Uploaded November 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
This is the penultimate video in this series: one more to go!

After the last German strategic forces collapse around the Reich capital, Soviet troops enter Berlin for the final battle. Marshals Zhukov and Konev compete for the master prize. After several days of incredibly hard fighting, the German Command reaches out for negotiations with the Soviets. But Stalin would not hear of anything else than unconditional surrender...

Sources:
V. Chuikov: From Stalingrad to Berlin
C. Duffy: Red storm on the Reich, The soviet march on Germany, 1945
D. Glantz: Red Army Officers Speak
H. Heiber and D. Glantz: Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences 1942-1945
J. Lopez: Berlin, les offensives géantes de l'Armée Rouge (12 janvier-9 mai 1945)
H. Magenheimer: Abwehrschlacht an der Weichsel 1945
A. Mednikov: The Berlin Notes
C. Ryan: The Last Battle

Special thanks to Brad Golding for narration, John Duquette, Thorsten Manfred, Gary Tanner and Thomas Layton for voice overs.

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