28 March 1945 A.D. Stalin Receives GEN Eisenhower’s Battle Plan Sweeping Southern Germany & Austria; Also, Marburg Taken After Breakout from Remagen by US 3rd Army Corps
28 March 1945 A.D. Stalin Receives GEN Eisenhower’s Battle Plan Sweeping Southern Germany & Austria; Also, Marburg Taken After Breakout from Remagen by US 3 rd Army Corps https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/march-28/ 1945 – Stalin receives a personal telegram from General Eisenhower (Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force) giving details of his order of battle and saying that he intends to send the main weight of his advance across southern Germany and Austria. The main thrust is to be toward Erfurt and Leipzig and a secondary effort is to go for Nuremberg, Regensburg and Linz. The British protest the signal sent to Stalin, suggesting that decisions of such importance should not be taken by Eisenhower alone and that he also overstepping the authority in communicating directly with the Soviets. Both Churchill and the British Chiefs of Staff would prefer the advance to be directed on Berlin as had been the plan up to now for the polit...