Ummm, capturing the bridge at Remagen didn't get the Soviets to Berlin any faster, and that's what ended the war in Europe.
Eisenhower allowed the Russians to get to Berlin first.
Actually (& indirectly) the capture of the Remagen Bridge DID shorten the time that it took the Red Army to take Berlin.
Had the railroad bridge NOT been taken by 9th Armored Division’s forces & the US Army had NOT been able to roll into Germany “with dry feet”, the German Army could have concentrated their remaining armored/mechanized infantry forces to protect & hold Berlin against the USSR’s troops, rather than supinely waiting while the USA rolled across Germany, almost unopposed.
As LTG Patton said, “Losing the Remagen Bridge to the Allies was the FATAL BLOW that destroyed any chance that Germany could long avoid humiliating defeat.”
Yours, ex-cadet
That’s rather amateurish and naive analysis. The Soviets were well-aided by the allies in the west getting across the Rhine in March and running wild deep into Germany. In fact, Eisenhower pulled up just short of Berlin and left it to the Soviets to clear.
Getting across the Rhine made the Soviet task orders of magnitude easier.
Why would you act like that seriously brave act was nothing?
The Germans knew how badly that crossing would hurt them and they threw everything but the kitchen sink at that bridge. V-2 rockets, the few jet bombers they could find, and every soldier they could muster to that area.
They knew stopping that crossing was critical to giving them breathing room to stop the Russians.