Invasion of Germany (Western Allies)
Part of the Western Front of the European theatre of World War II
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American infantrymen of the U.S. 11th Armored Division supported by an M4 Sherman tank move through a smoke filled street in Wernberg, Germany, April 1945.
Date22 March – 8 May 1945
Location
Western Germany, Southern Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria
Result

Allied victory

  • Fall of Nazi Germany
  • End of World War II in Europe (concurrently with the Eastern Front)
Territorial
changes
Allied Occupation of Germany
Belligerents
 United States
 United Kingdom
France
 Canada
Poland
 Belgium

 Germany Surrendered

  • RussiaRussian Liberation Army

Hungary  Surrendered
Commanders and leaders
United StatesDwight Eisenhower
United KingdomBernard Montgomery
United StatesOmar Bradley
United StatesJacob Devers
Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler 
Nazi GermanyAlbert Kesselring
Nazi GermanyWalter Model 
Nazi GermanyPaul Hausser
Nazi GermanyFriedrich Schulz
Nazi GermanyJohannes Blaskowitz
Nazi GermanyErnst Busch
Units involved

United States12th Army Group

  • First Army
  • Third Army
  • Fifteenth Army

United Kingdom21st Army Group

  • CanadaFirst Army
  • United KingdomSecond Army
  • United StatesNinth Army

United States6th Army Group

  • United StatesSeventh Army
  • FranceFirst Army
United StatesUnited KingdomFirst Allied Airborne Army

Nazi GermanyArmy Group B

  • 15th Army
  • 5th Panzer Army
  • Army Detachment von Lüttwitz

Nazi GermanyArmy Group G

  • 7th Army
  • 1st Army
  • 19th Army
  • 24th Army

Nazi GermanyArmy Group H

  • 25th Army
  • 1st Parachute Army
  • Army Group Blumentritt

Nazi GermanyArmy Group D

  • 11th Army
  • 12th Army
Strength
4,500,000
(91 Divisions)
17,000 tanks
28,000 combat aircraft
63,000 artillery pieces
970,000 vehicles
Initial:
1,600,000
about 90 tanks and 400 "other armored vehicles" guns
2,000 operational combat aircraft
Casualties and losses
American:
62,704 casualties
Canadian:
6,490 casualties
British:
17,930 casualties
French:
18,306 casualties
Other Allies:
715 casualties

January–May 1945:
265,000 to 400,000
(For all fronts)
200,000 captured
(January–March)
4,400,000 surrendered
(April–June)

Recorded German Army casualties from 1 March to 20 April 1945 were 5,778 killed and 16,820 wounded.