In April 1945 the end of the war was only weeks away but for the Allied troops in Germany, there was no obvious end in sight. In the four weeks since the crossing of the Rhine, Lieutenant General Alexander Patch’s US Seventh Army had pushed deep into southern Germany, but not without opposition. Now the […]
Read MoreWhen East met West at Torgau in 1945
As the Allied Armies advanced across Nazi Germany, with the Soviets coming from the East and the British and Americans coming in from the West, it was only a matter of time before their soldiers met on the battlefield. The first instance of this was at Torgau on the River Elbe on 25th April 1945, […]
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