Reaffirmed in the fall of 19 44 tat ambition of the western allies to go to berlin. Then he changed his mind in march in part march of 1945 in part because the russians were virtually on the doorstep of berlin. The russians beginning in january of 1945 amassed several million troopses that were going fall on berlin. The british were still 200 miles from berlin. And a decisions that already been made about how germany in general and berlin specifically would be divided up after the war. They would be partitioned with zones for the russian, the british, the americans, and the french and the same would happen with berlin. And eisenhower came to believe, he was encouraged by roosevelt to avoid conflict with the russians. He dime believe that it was pointless to tens of thousand of casualties racing to berlin when the russians were already virtually inside the city limits of berlin. And so he changed his mind. He directed his armies toward dress din toward the southeast. I think it was the
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