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American & Russian armies meet in Germany...
American & Russian armies meet in Germany...
Item # 724967
April 27, 1945
NEW YORK POST, April 27, 1945
* United States Army join Russian troops in Germany
* Historic meeting - World War II - "Handshake of Torgau"
The front page has a great headline within a black background: "U. S. ARMY JOINS RUSSIANS!" Nice for display. And the top of page 3 has a banner heading: "U. S. ARMY MEETS RUSSIANSAT ELBE" with related map and photos of some key generals.
Complete with 42 pages, tabloid size, some spine wear, otherwise nice.
background: The link-up at the Elbe on April 27, 1945, represented the physical collapse of the Nazi regime, as the U.S. First Army and the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front solidified a junction that sliced the remnants of the Third Reich into two isolated pockets. While the initial, tentative contact occurred two days prior, April 27 marked the formalization of this historic meeting near Torgau, characterized by an outpouring of genuine, albeit short-lived, camaraderie between soldiers who had spent years fighting toward this singular geographic coordinate. Amidst the ruins of a destroyed bridge over the Elbe, the world witnessed the "Handshake of Torgau," a moment where the disparate ideologies of the East and West were temporarily set aside in favor of a shared victory. This encounter was not merely a tactical milestone that prevented German forces from reorganizing; it was a profound psychological blow to the German high command and a signal to the global public—via simultaneous announcements in Moscow, London, and Washington—that the war in Europe had reached its inevitable conclusion.
Category: World War II
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