After 10 shattering blows on the Eastern Front in 1944, the Western Allies and the USSR continue to compress nazi Germany in January 1945. 

Map 1: The compressing front

1a: 1 January 1944

1b: 1 January 1945 

1c: 15 January 1945 

Map 2: The siege of Budapest, January 1945

Map 3: The Vistula-Oder campaign, January 1945

Map 4: The East Prussia offensive

Photos

The Budapest Chain Bridge destroyed, January 1945

Ruins of Warsaw, even in 1947

Source: New York photographer Henry N. Cobb, taken in 1947, via Rare Historical Photos.

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