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. Our indiegogo campaign on the Sturmzug manual: https://igg.me/at/sturmzug 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 Ger