Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe AUTH-4069940 Farzin Asadi

Farzin Asadi

Introduction by Adam Parfrey

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the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Award

After reading Kafka

Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe AUTH-4069940 Farzin AsadiBehind this decision lay another. Whose forces would be the first to reach Berlin? General Dwight David Eisenhower, supreme commander of the British and American armies, chose to halt at the Elbe River and leave Berlin to the Red Army. Could he have beaten the Russians to Berlin? If so, why didn't he? If he had, would the Berlin question have arisen? Would Germany have been divided as it was? Would the Cold War have assumed a direction more favorable