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German sabotage services are send to the rear of the Western allies of its agents, dressed in a Union form. In the second half of March 1945 Eisenhower had his biggest offensive of the war – the Rhine-Ruhr. In the area of the main attack the allies had an overwhelming advantage. The offensive was launched March 23 powerful artillery preparation of 900 guns. Crossing of the Rhine was successful and with small losses, because the expected strong resistance to the Germans did not have. The Allies landed behind enemy lines several airborne assault across the Rhine were bridged, and by 28 March of Field Marshal Kesselring's troops resistance was finally broken. The allies were surrounded in the Ruhr area of a large group of enemy troops under Field Marshal Model. After two weeks of resistance, it surrendered.
In surrendered 317,000 soldiers and officers and 30 generals. The final stage of the war testified that the German forces had a fierce resistance to Soviet east, and preferred to give up a prisoner in the west. The U.S. and UK Eisenhower and to this day blame the fact that he led the American and British armies directly to Berlin, giving it the Soviet army and the forces on the redirected Bavaria and its capital Munich. But the general thought that the capture of Berlin, the Anglo-American forces would lose at least 100 thousand people killed, and preferred to give the right to the capture of Berlin to Soviet troops. April 21, 1945 Eisenhower sent a message to the Soviet High Command with the message that he has decided to stop his troops on the Elbe.
In their speeches, the general has always highly valued the contribution of the Soviet people and its armed forces in a common cause of defeating Nazi Germany. He had a high opinion military talents of Marshal Zhukov, and called him 'the greatest military strategist of our time. " After the war, until 1948, Eisenhower served as Chief of Staff U.S. Army. Then resigned and became rector of Columbia University. In 1950 he returned for three years for military service, becoming the supreme commander of NATO forces, and has contributed to stirring up the cold Western war against the Soviet Union and socialist countries. In 1953 he won the U.S. presidential election and remained the head of the White House until 1961. During his presidency, the main event was the Korean War, in that the burden of hostilities on the Korean peninsula claimed the U.S. Army. When Eisenhower was drafted several plans for a nuclear attack on the USSR. The strength of the state and political activity Eisenhower was the fact that he had a certain political realism. Speaking on television, the president warned the American people that the American institutions threatens the military-industrial complex spreading its influence on all aspects of life. He took into account the growing might of the Soviet Union. In April 1956, Eisenhower wrote in a personal letter: 'There will come a day when the U.S. and the USSR would come to the conclusion that the origin of any military action, regardless of the element of surprise, will lead to a mutual and total destruction. Then, obviously, we will have enough common sense to sit down and recognize that era ended in the arms and humanity, or should take this into account, or perish. "
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Jul 25 2013