28 March 1945 A.D. Stalin Receives GEN Eisenhower’s Battle Plan Sweeping Southern Germany & Austria; Also, Marburg Taken After Breakout from Remagen by US 3rd Army Corps
28 March 1945 A.D. Stalin Receives GEN Eisenhower’s Battle Plan
Sweeping Southern Germany & Austria; Also, Marburg Taken After Breakout
from Remagen by US 3rd Army Corps
1945 – Stalin
receives a personal telegram from General Eisenhower (Supreme Allied Commander
of the Allied Expeditionary Force) giving details of his order of battle and
saying that he intends to send the main weight of his advance across southern
Germany and Austria. The main thrust is to be toward Erfurt and Leipzig and
a secondary effort is to go for Nuremberg, Regensburg and Linz. The British
protest the signal sent to Stalin, suggesting that decisions of such importance
should not be taken by Eisenhower alone and that he also overstepping the
authority in communicating directly with the Soviets. Both Churchill and the
British Chiefs of Staff would prefer the advance to be directed on Berlin as
had been the plan up to now for the political value of this move. However,
President Roosevelt, weakened by his illness, leaves most military decisions to
General Marshall and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Marshall confirms his support
for Eisenhower in response to the British protest.
1945 – Marburg is taken
by US 3rd Corps (part of US 1st Army) which has made a rapid advance from the
Remagen bridgehead.
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