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THE END OF THE WAR IN WESTERN GERMANY, 1945

WATCH ON THE RHINE: THE END IN WESTERN GERMANY, 1945:
 
Negligently stripping the Eastern Front of powerful forces to carry out the dubious Ardennes Offensive of December 1944 to halt the advancing Allies, the initial successes on the Western Front very soon gave way to stupendous defeat less than a month later.  It was to be the last offensive the Germans were to launch in the remainder of the War, for already in February 1945, the Allies were standing before the "Westwall", the last barrier to the borders of the Reich.  The industrially important Ruhr region, already battered beyond recognition by Allied bombers, was within reach of Allied occupation.  Allied air superiority translated into hand to hand fighting for every town ... for every house.

This film shows those end battles in western Germany and the occupation of those areas by allied troops, as the War inexorably came to its end in the East, where the Soviets were beating down the majority of the Wehrmacht's defensive troops. 
(124 mins. In very good quality. In German, with no subtitles).
DVD-R IS APPROX. 124 MINS.  REGION FREE.