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0559 hrs Monday, 6th August 1945, 182 Squadron RAF, airborne over Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
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0608 hrs Monday, 6th August 1945, 182 Squadron RAF, airborne over Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
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CHAPTER 42 – THE COMMANDERS
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0545 hrs Monday, 6th August 1945, Headquarters, US Forces in Europe. I.G.Farben, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
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1030 hrs Monday, 6th August 1945, Headquarters, US Forces in Europe. I.G.Farben, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
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1035 hrs Monday, 6th August 1945, Headquarters of Red Banner Forces of Soviet Europe, Schloss Schönefeld, Leipzig.
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0530 hrs Monday, 6th August 1945, Rittmanhausen, Germany.
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0810 hrs Monday 6th August 1945, Neumarkt im Mühlkreiss - Kefermarkt Area, US occupied Lower Austria.
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2102 hrs Monday, 6th August 1945, Headquarters, US Forces in Europe. I.G.Farben, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
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CHAPTER 43 – THE BETRAYAL
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0525 hrs Tuesday, 7th August 1945, Headquarters, US Forces in Europe. I.G.Farben, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
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1201 hrs Tuesday 7th August 1945, Heiligenthal, South-West of Lüneberg, Germany.
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CHAPTER 44 – THE COUNCIL
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1400 hrs Tuesday, 7th August 1945, Headquarters, US Forces in Europe. I.G.Farben, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
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CHAPTER 45 – THE ANNOUNCEMENT
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0656 hrs Wednesday, 8th August 1945, Headquarters, Allied Forces in Europe. I.G.Farben, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
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0659 hrs Wednesday, 8th August 1945, Headquarters of Red Banner Forces of Soviet Europe, Schloss Schönefeld, Leipzig.
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0721 hrs Wednesday, 8th August 1945, Headquarters of Red Banner Forces of Soviet Europe, Schloss Schönefeld, Leipzig.
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1131 hrs Wednesday 8th August 1945, Office of the NKVD Chairman, the Lubyanka, Moscow, USSR.
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1210 hrs, Wednesday 8th August 1945, Geesthacht, Germany.
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1500 hrs Wednesday 8th August 1945. Former Headquarters of SHAEF, Trianon Palace Hotel, Versailles, France.
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1528 hrs Wednesday, 8th August 1945, Headquarters of Red Banner Forces of Soviet Europe, Schloss Schönefeld, Leipzig.
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1820 hrs Wednesday, 8th August 1945, Airborne over Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
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2019 hrs Wednesday 8th August 1945, 12th US Army Group Headquarters, Wiesbaden, Germany.
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CHAPTER 46 – THE GENERALISSIMO
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0520 hrs Thursday 9th August 1945, Rear-line positions, ‘B’ Btty, 60th Field Artillery Btn, 9th US Infantry Division at Neunkirchen am Sand, Germany.
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0800 hrs Thursday 9th August 1945, The Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.
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0830 hrs Thursday 9th August 1945, Headquarters of SHAEF, Trianon Hotel, Versailles, France.
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0845 hrs Thursday 9th August 1945, Curau River crossings, South of Malkendorf, Germany.
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1028 hrs Thursday 9th August 1945, Headquarters of the French First Army, Baden-Baden.
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1215 hrs Thursday 9th August 1945, Headquarters of the French First Army, Baden-Baden.
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2135 hrs Thursday 9th August 1945, Headquarters of SHAEF, Trianon Hotel, Versailles, France.
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CHAPTER 47 – THE NIGHT
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0215 hrs Friday 10th August 1945, Headquarters, US Forces in Europe, Trianon Palace Hotel, Versailles, France.
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0257 hrs Friday 10th August 1945, Airborne over Leipzig, Germany.
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0259 hrs Monday, 6th August 1945, Headquarters of Red Banner Forces of Soviet Europe, Schloss Schönefeld, Leipzig.
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0535 hrs Friday 10th August 1945, Vendeville Airfield, France.
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0320 hrs Friday 10th August 1945, Advance Headquarters of 12th US Armored Division, Bad Windsheim, Germany.
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0325 hrs Friday 10th August 1945, Airborne over München, Germany.
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0423 hrs Friday 10th August 1945, Battle lines of the 15th US Armored Division, Bad Driburg, Germany.
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CHAPTER 48 – THE RIPOSTES
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0545 hrs Friday 10th August 1945, 12th US Armored Division and other Assault formations of the US Fifteenth Army, Ochsenfurt- Goßmannsdorf, Germany.
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0858 hrs 10th August 1945, American Counter-attack, Vicinity of Rottenbauer, Germany.
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1239 hrs 10th August 1945,
 
Soviet Ambush and Counter-attack, vicinity of Reichenberg, Germany.
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CHAPTER 49 – THE WEAKNESS?
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1355 hrs 10th August 1945, Headquarters, US Forces in Europe, Trianon Palace Hotel, Versailles, France.
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2056 hrs 10th August 1945. Headquarters, US Forces in Europe, Trianon Palace Hotel, Versailles, France.
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1422 hrs 10th August 1945, Durnbucherforst, Germany.
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1748 hrs Friday 10th August 1945, Ainauwald, Germany.
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1959 hrs Friday 10th August 1945, The Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.
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CHAPTER 50 – THE PLAN
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0255 hrs 11th August 1945, Headquarters, Red Banner Forces of Europe, Kohnstein, Nordhausen, Germany.
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0951 hrs Saturday 11th August 1945, Office of the NKVD Chairman, The Lubyanka, Moscow, USSR.
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CHAPTER 51 – THE HORRORS
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0341 hrs 11th August 1945, Units of the 1st Guards Tank Army at Stammen, South of Trendelburg, Germany.
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0351 hrs 11th August 1945, Soviet attack, Stammen & Friedrichsfeld-Sud, south of Trendelburg, Germany.
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0352 hrs Saturday 11th August 1945, US Front Lines, Stammen, south of Trendelburg, Germany.
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0400 hrs Saturday 11th August 1945, Trendelburg, Germany.
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0412 hrs 11th August 1945, US Front Lines, Stammen, Germany.
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0513 hrs 11th August 1945, Trendelburg, Germany.
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