“Greatest army ever assembled, US Third Army. If Ike didn’t handcuff him, there would be a US flag over the Reichstag vs the commie red star.”
Ike made a pretty reasonable decision. Berlin, along with much of eastern & central Germany was inside the zone set forth for Soviet Occupation. If he had let US/Brit/Canadian/French forced go for it, we would have paid a huge price in casualties for territory that FDR would have handed over to the Russians anyway.
It really wasn’t until the Berlin Airlift (1948) that the honeymoon with the Soviets was completely over politically.
Nazis had no choice but to fight the Russians to the death in Berlin.
Had it been US or British troops approaching Berlin, the Germans would have surrendered in droves.