By the end of 1944, during the last days of Nazi Germany, Allied forces

By the end of 1944, Allied forces were advancing into Germany from the west, while Soviet forces pressed in from the east and Allied forces also approached from the south through Italy. Germany was therefore being squeezed from three sides. The Allies were not about to take over the Soviet Union, had not lost Normandy, and still had strong air support.

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