[dfwgator]

I guarantee if the Western Allies took Berlin, the fight would have been over quickly.

Germans had no choice but to try to fight the Russians because they knew what Russian occupation would mean.

[fso301]

I guarantee if the Western Allies took Berlin, the fight would have been over quickly.

I don't doubt that.

Germans had no choice but to try to fight the Russians because they knew what Russian occupation would mean.

Yes but I've heard Russian casualties placed anywhere from 100K to over 1 million. I was always a little suspicious that some of the ever inflating numbers were intended to help generate/maintain sympathetic western views towards Soviet occupation.