[Ditto]

Didn’t Ike stop Patten so the Soviet army could take Berlin?

That's true... and tens of thousands of Americans are alive because he did. Stalin wanted to take Berlin and lost over 80,000 troops to Nazi fanatics in doing so. A few weeks later, we (and the Brits and French) strolled in and took over more than half the city.

I'm sure Patton wanted to take Berlin to add to his 'list of triumphs,' but if your father or grandfather was a grunt in the 3rd Army, be glad that Ike let the Ruskies do it. It was a price we did not need to pay.

The Russians lost 80,000 men killed and 275,000 wounded or missing in the lead up to the battle and in the battle itself. Two thousand Russian tanks were destroyed. 150,000 Germans were killed during the battle.

Source = http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_for_berlin.htm

[Little Ray]

You are right. Further more, Eastern Europe had already been divvied up at Yalta. Taking Berlin would have been waste - we would have had give most of it to the Soviets.
There were a lot of areas we took that we had to give to the Soviets. We took what we could find of Nazi secrets, special equipment, scientists, engineers, documents, treasure, etc., before turned them over to the Soviets.