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US Forces 1945: Why not Berlin?

Why didn’t the United States Army and/or the British Army invade Berlin in 1945? To understand why the Western Allies did not go for Berlin, it important to understand a) the positioning of the various armies and their ongoing operations b) the manpower situation in general, c) the specific manpower situation due to the ongoing war in the Pacific, d) that although the German Forces were mostly beaten, they still could inflict some damage, e) that in some areas public order had to be restored and f) that the Soviets were not limited to Berlin neither. Jesse's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jesse_history Cover design by vonKickass. »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon, see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized » SOURCES « Giangreco, D. M.: Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947. US Naval Institute Press: United States, 2017. MacDonald, Charles B.: The Last Offensive. United States Army in World War II. The European Theater of Operations. CMH Pub 7-9-1 Center of Military History – United States Army: Washington, D.C., 1993 (1973). Ball, Simon: The Mediterranean and North Africa, 1940-1944, in: Cambridge History of the Second World War – Volume I, p. 358-388. Barbier, Mary Kathryn: The war in the West, 1943-1945. in: Cambridge History of the Second World War – Volume I, p. 389-419. Biddle, Tami Davis: On the Crest of Fear: V-Weapons, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Last Stages of World War II in Europe. In: The Journal of Military History. Vol. 83, No. 1, January 2019. Mawdsley, Evan: Thunder in the East. The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945. Second Edition. Bloomsbury: London, 2016. Citino, Robert M.: The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand. The German Campaigns of 1944-1945. University Press of Kansas: USA, 2017. Overmans, Rüdiger: Deutsche militärische Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg. R. Oldenbourg Verlag: München, Germany, 2004. Yelton, David K.: Hitler’s Volkssturm. The Nazi Militia and the Fall of Germany 1944-1945. Kansas University Press: Kansas, US, 2002. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg – Band 9 / 1 – Deutsche Kriegsgesellschaft 1939 bis 1945. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg – Band 10/1: Der Zusammenbruch des Deutschen Reiches 1945 und die Folgen des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Teilband 1: Die militärische Niederwerfung der Wehrmacht. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2008. Fennell, Jonathan: Fighting the People’s War. The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2019. Department of History at the United States Military Academy: Reduction Of Ruhr Pocket And Advance To the Elbe And Middle Rivers, 5-18 April 1945 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Allied_invasion_of_Germany#/media/File:Advance_through_Germany_-_5-18_April_1945.jpg Why didn’t the Nazis let the Allies take Berlin? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/i4povh/why_didnt_the_nazis_let_the_allies_take_berlin/ #WhyNotBerlin #BattleOfBerlin #AttackingBerlin