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    It has been a month since the Battle of the Ardennes. Although the U.S. military won the Battle of the Ardennes, in fact, the overall casualties far exceeded the losses of the German army.  <-> Fortunately, the Americans are rich and have capital to consume. For the Germans who are short of manpower and resources, even if the casualties are less than those of the United States, the gains outweigh the losses.

    Although the German counterattack did not achieve the expected results, it actually had a great impact on the Allies. At least on the Western Front, the Allied offensive had become sluggish.  Eisenhower, who had originally planned to enter Berlin and end the war earlier than the Soviet Union, was extremely annoyed.

    Every day, the Allied troops listened to the Soviet Union's victories on the Eastern Front and could only say with envy: "If we hadn't just wiped out the main force of the Germans! How could the Soviet Union have achieved such a victory?"

    However, the Soviets ignored the Allies' thoughts and used human sea tactics to get closer to the German mainland. Now they were getting closer and closer to Berlin. The US military command finally couldn't help it. In March 1945, it launched an attack on the industrial heart of Germany.  The Ruhr Siege Campaign was launched.

    The Germans' strength at this time was completely insufficient. Hitler's conscription had already brought children as young as sixty to eleven or twelve years old to the front line.  Unfortunately, the ragtag army was vulnerable, and the battle lasted until April 18th, when the battle officially ended.  When the battle was about to end, the Soviet Union officially started the Battle of Berlin.  <h1></h1>

    No matter how Hitler fought with the Allies and how heavy the losses were, in fact Hitler still believed that Stalin was his real enemy. In the battle to encircle the German mainland, he always maintained a force of more than one million people to defend the Soviet Union.  Hitler delivered a speech that shocked the world: "Surrender is destruction", thus clearly expressing his thoughts.

    Hitler said: "If the Bolsheviks win, the Germans will be destroyed, raped and enslaved. Many people will be sent to the ice and snow of Siberia, and then freeze to death or starve to death in the cold!"

    Yes, the Germans¡¯ fear of the Soviets did not just stem from Hitler¡¯s propaganda. In fact, this hostility was an overall national hostility.  And Hitler just used the topic to play a little bit.  In previous wars, not only did the Germans massacre the Soviet troops crazily, but the Soviets also spared no effort in retaliating against the Germans.  For example, in February 1944, Stalin's Marshal Konev launched a frenzied killing spree against more than 20,000 German troops who had laid down their weapons and surrendered.

    Of course, before attacking Berlin, the Soviet tank crews clearly put slogans on their tanks: "Drive into the fascists' lair!" "Only revenge and death await the German invaders!".  Not only that, in the great joy that Berlin was about to be captured, in order to stimulate the soldiers, the method used by the political officers of the Soviet Union to arouse the hatred of the soldiers was the "revenge score."

    They talked to soldiers and officers in each unit and documented the atrocities.  The amount of looting and violence committed by Hitler's beasts.  For example, in one camp, they compiled a terrible revenge score and posted it on a poster: 'We want to avenge the 775 relatives who were killed and the 909 relatives who were caught as slaves in Germany.  , avenging 478 burned houses and 303 destroyed farms'.

    Every regiment of the 1st Belorussian Front held a "revenge meeting" and aroused great enthusiasm among the soldiers.  The commander said happily: "Our front troops, like all Red Army soldiers, are noble avengers. We will make the fascist invaders punished for all their atrocities and crimes."

    ¡°We had a huge slogan posted in the canteen,¡± recalled a female translator at the headquarters of the 1st Belarusian Front.  "'Have you not killed a German yet? So kill him!' We were greatly influenced by Ehrenberg's appeal and we had many reasons for revenge."

    The parents of the female translator were killed by the Germans in Sevastopol.  "The hatred is so deep that it will be difficult to control the soldiers once they enter Berlin," she said.

    ¡°After these details were obtained by Hitler¡¯s intelligence agents, vigorous propaganda also made the people of Berlin, Germany, even more afraid of crazy retaliation from the Soviet Union.  ironnically.  While the Soviet military continued to build hatred among soldiers for the final general offensive, their seventh department, which was responsible for propaganda work, was trying to convince German soldiers that they would receive good treatment if they surrendered. What a lie!

    Berlin is a city with a population of three to four million, including 120,000 infants.  In fact, Hitler declared Berlin a fortress city in February.  General Lehman is already the third person to hold this position.  He found himself dealing with pressure from all sides, including Hitler, Goebbels, the reserve forces commanded by Himmler, the Air Force, the Vistula River Command, the SS, the Hitler Youth and the people who controlled the Volkssturm.  Team's duec2; There were only 70,000 people working on this project on the highest day, and usually less than 30,000 people participated every day.  Apart from the lack of vehicles and tools being the main problem, most of Berlin's factories and offices are still functioning.  It's like nothing happened.

    General Lehmann asked Colonel Loebeck, an engineering officer, to take over the chaotic fortification construction project run by the Nazis. He also asked the military engineering school in Karl Shost to send a demolition team.  Officers were uneasy about Speer's intention to preserve Berlin's bridges.  They could not forget the execution of the officers on the Remagen Bridge.  Rayman's Sappers, who run the Tot Organization and the Imperial Labor Service, are far better equipped than their civilian counterparts, but unfortunately they find it difficult to find fuel and parts for their excavators.

    The vast majority of the 17,000 French prisoners of war in prison were also sent to the construction site.  Their job was to set up barricades and dig foxholes on the corners of city streets.  There is no doubt that the results of their work were extremely limited, and these French prisoners of war were usually those who were least willing to work. They often escaped from the prison camps and fooled around with German women.  However, these French prisoners of war will soon be killed by the Germans.  (To be continued.)
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