The Fall of Germany and Hitler’s Death
-Battle for Normandy -summer 1944
-Falaise gap
-Liberation of Paris
-Operation Market Garden -Sept 194 - Ploy to end the war before the Russians got to Berlin
-The battle of the Bulge -German counteroffensive
-Russian attack on Berlin (300,000 Soviet troops)
-Hitler commits suicide in Bunker
-Russians and Americans meet
-From Stalingrad onward the Germans were on the defensive
-Russians advance all the way to Berlin
-Largest tank battle in history 5-15 July 1943 at Kursk
-Jan 27 1944 Siege of Leningrad broken
-16 April Berlin offensive begins
-Falaise gap
-Liberation of Paris
-Operation Market Garden -Sept 194 - Ploy to end the war before the Russians got to Berlin
-The battle of the Bulge -German counteroffensive
-Russian attack on Berlin (300,000 Soviet troops)
-Hitler commits suicide in Bunker
-Russians and Americans meet
-From Stalingrad onward the Germans were on the defensive
-Russians advance all the way to Berlin
-Largest tank battle in history 5-15 July 1943 at Kursk
-Jan 27 1944 Siege of Leningrad broken
-16 April Berlin offensive begins
summary
By april 1945 the russian army had surrounded Berlin, where hitler had his headquarters in his bunker. He had decided to make his last stand in Berlin, and not surrender. The generally accepted account is that he commited suicide by biting a cyanide capsule and shooting himself simultaneously.