How was the Battle of Arnhem?

On September 17, the Battle of Arnhem began. Because the Allied High Command did not regard this battle as the main operation on the northern flank, the overall deployment of the battle was inappropriate, and the effects of bad weather prevented the Allied forces from conquering the last bridgehead north of Arnhem as they hoped. On September 25, the frontline troops were forced to retreat, and the Battle of Arnhem was not completely won.

On December 6, the German army commanded by Rundstedt suddenly launched a forceful attack on the weak Ardennes area in front of the US 1st Army. Its purpose was to strive for the so-called "Germany's last major action to win the war." The attack created a sizable salient in the American lines. The situation quickly deteriorated, and the 12th Army Group was eventually split into two.

Montgomery was ordered to organize a counterattack. He placed the British 9th Army under his control, fought with the US Army, and asked the group army to take over certain positions of the 1st Army. Before the formation of the American reserve force, he deployed the British army behind the 1st and 9th armies to act as a reserve echelon.

Under Montgomery's organizational deployment, the situation gradually stabilized. He was then given command of the entire Northern Front. The Allied forces fought in a coordinated and heroic manner for two weeks, annihilating the attacking German forces and shattering Rundstedt's conspiracy.

After the Battle of the Ardennes, Eisenhower accepted Montgomery's suggestion, concentrated his forces on the northern front of the Ruhr Industrial Area, and appointed Montgomery to command and control Allied operations.

On February 8, 1945, the U.S. 9th Army cooperated with the Canadian Army to attack north. By March 10, the U.S. 9th Army and the 21st Army Group were in position on the west bank of the Rhine. At the same time, the 1st American Group completely captured the railway bridge in Remagen on March 7 and immediately established a bridgehead on the east bank.

On March 23, Montgomery commanded the British and American forces to cross the Rhine River and defeat the German army on the North German plains. After that, he marched day and night to the Baltic coast to prevent the Soviet army from entering Denmark first and taking control of Denmark. The entrance to Baltica.

On May 2, the troops arrived at Wismar and Lübeck on the Baltic Sea and blocked the Danish peninsula six hours before the Soviet troops arrived.

After that, the British army built two lines of defense in the east and west directions, and the 2nd Army captured nearly 500,000 prisoners of war within two days.

On May 4, 1.5 million German troops stationed in the Netherlands, northwest Germany and Denmark surrendered to Montgomery. The war against Germany reached its final moments, and Hitler's fascist Germany faced complete collapse.

On May 8, 1945, the war in the European battlefield officially ended, and military representatives of the German High Command signed a military surrender.