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FOR THE ARMED FORCES
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steel bands were closing on German troops in the Netherlands. Enemy resistance
was spotty, lacking unity and central control.
Soviet soldiers engaged in bitter battles throughout the streets of Vienna and
fall of the Austrian capital appeared imminent on 10 April. To the north, the
East Prussian capital of Konigsberg capitulated.
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