If the British and U.S. forces took Berlin, they would throw away the lives of the men that fought for that city as afterwards the city would be given to the Russians as agreed at the Yalta conference.

Unless ofcourse this agreement never took place or was simply ignored.


Not to mention at the time of the conference, Zhukov was 40 miles from Berlin

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler