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Eisenhower Decides Berlin Drop Ahead of Soviet Arrival
Allied documents released last week show General Eisenhower alone authorized delaying Berlin assault allowing Soviet forces to reach Berlin first in 1945. Stalin backed Eisenhower noting Berlin had lost strategic importance. Churchill opposed. Memoirs quote Khrushchev praising Eisenhower and warn Germany could have faced a different outcome.
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