Last German Victory Western Front? Scharnhorst Division - Elbe 1945
May 12, 2025
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as posted by the channelIn mid-April 1945, just three weeks before VE-Day, US forces attempted to cross the Elbe River, the last natural barrier before Berlin. At one bridgehead the Americans were attacked by a battlegroup from one of Germany's new infantry units, the Scharnhorst Division, with very depressing results for the Americans. Was this the last German victory in the West?
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Credits: US National Archives; Library of Congress
Thumbnail Art: Ron Volstad
Sources:
''Elbe Operation'
- US Army in World War II, The Last Offensive: Chapter XVII
Sweep to the Elbe
- 'Downfall: 1945' by Steven Zaloga, (Osprey: 2016)
'Phase III Bridging of the Elbe'
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