As Allied armies move deep into Germany, US officials say three million German soldiers have been killed, wounded or captured since D-Day, fulfilling General Eisenhower’s prediction that the Allies would break the German army within a year of the Normandy landings.

Magdeburg, Leipzig and Nuremberg are within the Allies’ grasp and pockets of German resistance behind the front lines are being mopped up.

German radio reports say Soviet forces are within fourteen miles of Berlin.

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