Germany & Austria 1945
Torgau — Elbe Day
D-Day · The Elbe · 25 April 1945
GuideGermany & Austria 1945
AreaBerlin & the Elbe
TypeD-Day · The Elbe · 25 April 1945
Time to allow1 h
LocationExact spot known
GPS51.56000, 13.00500
The story
Where American and Soviet troops met and cut Germany in two.
What to look for
Memorial on the river; 4 h east of the route.
Nearby sites
- Berlin — Reichstag and the Führerbunker site · 109 km
- Nuremberg — Documentation Centre & Zeppelinfeld · 272 km
- Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial · 382 km
- Mauthausen Memorial · 383 km
- Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism · 393 km
- Hurlach — Kaufering IV camp site · 414 km
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Easy Company: Germany & Austria
A free field guide for your phone: the route, the maps and the stories built in, even with no signal. The places of the last months of the war in Europe: the Rhine, Bavaria with Landsberg, Dachau and Munich, Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's Nest, and Austria, where Easy Company ended its war at Zell am See and Kaprun.
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