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Originally Posted by Husker
The Allied forces were halted by Eisenhower before they could reach Berlin.
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Originally Posted by Bremen
We can never know if Eisenhower's forces would have gotten there first.
Regardless, the partition of Germany was already agreed at Yalta.
True and true, unless you also accept that the provisions at Yalta might have been a mistake as well. In the period between D-Day and Yalta, it's conceivable that the US and Britain might have made a deeper push into German territory rather than rely so much on strategic air power (the overuse of which might be counted as a mistake), but it's hard to see how the Western allies could have prevented the roll of the Red Army over Eastern Europe given the enormous discrepancy in armored divisions in particular.