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25 April 1945 First Meeting of Soviet and American Troops at Torgau |
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By late April most of Germany was in Allied hands,
with the British in the northwest, the Americans in the southwest, and the Soviets moving in from
the East toward Berlin. On April 25 elements of the 273rd U.S. Infantry Regiment encountered the
175th Soviet Rifle Regiment in the town of Torgau, northeast of Leipzig, which the Americans had
captured only a few days earlier. A brief celebration ensued, as everyone knew that the war in
Europe would not last much longer.
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