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CHAPTER 20

1.
The authoritative account is Earl F. Ziemke,
Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East
, Army Historical Series, Stetson Conn (ed.) (Washington, 1968), pp. 467–99. Ziemke has led me to alter my views somewhat on Soviet intentions and actions.

2.
Ibid., and Ryan,
The Last Battle
, p. 254.

3.
Bryant,
Triumph in the West
, p. 336.

4.
Ibid., pp. 340–41.

5.
Ehrman,
Grand Strategy
, Vol. VI, pp. 133–37; Eisenhower to Marshall, March 30, 1945, EP, No. 2373.

6.
Pogue,
Supreme Command
, p. 442.

7.
Eisenhower to Marshall, March 30, 1945, EP, No. 2373.

8.
Same to same, March 30, 1945, EP, No. 2374.

9.
Eisenhower to Montgomery, March 31, 1945, EP, No. 2378.

10.
Ehrman,
Grand Strategy
, Vol. VI, p. 135.

11.
Pogue,
Supreme Command
, p. 442; Eisenhower to Churchill, March 30, 1945,
EP, No. 2374, especially note 2; Churchill,
Triumph and Tragedy
, pp. 463–65; Ambrose,
Eisenhower and Berlin
, pp. 99–104.

12.
Eisenhower to Churchill, April 1, 1945, EP, No. 2381.

13.
Eisenhower,
Crusade in Europe
, p. 403.

14.
Eisenhower to Marshall, April 7, 1945, EP, No. 2400.

15.
Bryant,
Triumph in the West
, p. 339.

16.
Eisenhower to Churchill, April 3, 1945, EP, No. 2387.

17.
Brooke to Eisenhower, April 6, 1945, EP, No. 2398, note 1.

18.
Eisenhower to Marshall, April 6, 1945, EP, No. 2397.

19.
Pogue,
Supreme Command
, p. 444.

20.
Eisenhower to commanders, April 2, 1945, EP, No. 2385.

21.
Ambrose,
Eisenhower and Berlin
, pp. 64–65.

22.
Eisenhower to Marshall, April 7, 1945, EP, No. 2399.

23.
Leahy,
I Was There
, p. 303.

24.
Eisenhower to Montgomery, April 8, 1945, EP, No. 2402, and notes 1 and 2.

25.
Bradley,
A Soldier’s Story
, pp. 532–33.

26.
Eisenhower to CCS, April 5, 1945, EP, No. 2394.

27.
Ehrman,
Grand Strategy
, Vol. VI, p. 152.

28.
Eisenhower to CCS, April 5, 1945, EP, No. 2394, notes 1 and 2; and Pogue,
Supreme Command
, p. 465.

29.
Pogue,
Supreme Command
, p. 466; Ehrman,
Grand Strategy
, Vol. VI, pp. 152–60.

30.
Eisenhower to CCS, April 21, 1945, EP, No. 2432; Pogue,
Supreme Command
, p. 467.

31.
Ehrman,
Grand Strategy
, Vol. VI, pp. 150–51.

32.
Eisenhower to CCS, April 14, 1945, EP, No. 2414.

33.
Eisenhower to Marshall, April 15, 1945, EP, No. 2416.

34.
Eisenhower to CCS, April 14, 1945, EP, No. 2414.

35.
Eisenhower to commanders, April 15, 1945, EP, No. 2415.

CHAPTER 21

1.
Pogue,
Supreme Command
, p. 448.

2.
Ibid., pp. 449–50.

3.
Eisenhower to Marshall, April 15, 1945, EP, No. 2416.

4.
Simpson always believed he could have made it; see his letter in the New York
Times Book Review
, June 19, 1966; see also Ambrose,
Eisenhower and Berlin
, p. 92.

5.
Eisenhower to Marshall, April 15, 1945, EP, No. 2416.

6.
Churchill,
Triumph and Tragedy
, p. 515.

7.
Eisenhower to Marshall, April 23, 1945, EP, No. 2440.

8.
Eisenhower to Brooke, April 27, 1945, EP, No. 2451; Pogue,
Supreme Command
, pp. 450–51.

9.
Churchill,
Triumph and Tragedy
, p. 515.

10.
Pogue,
Supreme Command
, p. 468.

11.
Eisenhower to Marshall, April 29, 1945, EP, No. 2462.

12.
See Eisenhower to Deane and Archer, March 28, 1945, EP, No. 2363, notes 1, 2, and 3.

13.
Same to same, April 30 and May 6, 1945, EP, No. 2464; Pogue,
Supreme Command
, p. 469.

14.
Churchill,
Triumph and Tragedy
, p. 415.

15.
Pogue,
Supreme Command
, p. 459.

16.
Eisenhower to De Gaulle, April 28, 1945, EP, No. 2457; Pogue,
Supreme Command
, pp. 459–60.

17.
Eisenhower to De Gaulle, May 2, 1945, EP, No. 2473.

18.
Eisenhower to Marshall, April 26, 1945, EP, No. 2448.

19.
Same to same, April 15, 1945, EP, No. 2418.

20.
Same to same, April 27, 1945, EP, No. 2452; Pogue,
Supreme Command
, pp. 476–77.

21.
Kecskemeti,
Strategic Surrender
, pp. 142–47.

22.
Eisenhower to CCS, May 2, 1945, EP, No. 2472.

23.
Same to same, May 3, 1945, EP, No. 2474.

24.
Eisenhower to Deane and Archer, May 5, 1945, EP, No. 2493; Pogue,
Supreme Command
, pp. 480–83.

25.
Eisenhower to CCS, May 4, 1945, EP, No. 2485.

26.
Same to same, May 5, 1945, EP, No. 2494.

27.
Same to same, May 6, 1945, EP, No. 2498; Pogue,
Supreme Command
, pp. 486–87.

28.
Eisenhower used this phrase a number of times in interviews.

29.
Eisenhower to Marshall, May 8, 1945, and Marshall to Eisenhower, May 8, 1945, EM.

30.
Eisenhower to CCS, May 7, 1945, EP, No. 2499; Smith,
Eisenhower’s Six Great Decisions
, p. 229; Pogue,
Supreme Command
, pp. 488–89; Butcher,
My Three Years
, p. 834.

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