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Operation: Unthinkable was the code name for the operation to remove the Red Army's presence within former Nazi Germany. It was ordered to be created by British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. This plan was soon approved following the defeat of the Empire of Japan by American President Harry S. Truman and French President Charles de Gaulle. Unthinkable consisted of two phases, the first was to push the Red Army out of Germany by using strategic and technological superiority.The second phase would comprise of entrenched positions in Germany until demands were set upon Stalin to agree to the future of Central Europe. 1 July, 1945 was to be the operation's initial hypothetical start date, but had been allocated a later start date due to the persistence of the Japanese forces still engaging

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  • Operation: Unthinkable was the code name for the operation to remove the Red Army's presence within former Nazi Germany. It was ordered to be created by British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. This plan was soon approved following the defeat of the Empire of Japan by American President Harry S. Truman and French President Charles de Gaulle. Unthinkable consisted of two phases, the first was to push the Red Army out of Germany by using strategic and technological superiority.The second phase would comprise of entrenched positions in Germany until demands were set upon Stalin to agree to the future of Central Europe. 1 July, 1945 was to be the operation's initial hypothetical start date, but had been allocated a later start date due to the persistence of the Japanese forces still engaging
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  • Operation: Unthinkable was the code name for the operation to remove the Red Army's presence within former Nazi Germany. It was ordered to be created by British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. This plan was soon approved following the defeat of the Empire of Japan by American President Harry S. Truman and French President Charles de Gaulle. Unthinkable consisted of two phases, the first was to push the Red Army out of Germany by using strategic and technological superiority.The second phase would comprise of entrenched positions in Germany until demands were set upon Stalin to agree to the future of Central Europe. 1 July, 1945 was to be the operation's initial hypothetical start date, but had been allocated a later start date due to the persistence of the Japanese forces still engaging the allies. Much of the second plan was abandoned after it was seen that the land captured could not be properly defended. This was due to the Red Army's numerical superiority of 4:1 in men and 2:1 in tanks. To counteract this, 100,000 imprisoned Wehrmacht soldiers were released and ordered to fight for the Allies. However after the surrender of Japan, thousands of Allied troops were soon relocated to Europe. Captured generals such as Heinz Guderian, Erich von Manstein and Albert Kesselring took command of reformed Wehrmacht divisions. Several months into the operation, the nation of the Federal Republic of Germany was declared by the Allied forces of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands and Denmark. Theodor Heuss was then voted in as President of Germany and Konrad Adenauer was voted in as Chancellor. Following the creation of Federal Republic, recruitment of more troops for the Wehrmacht began, as well as the reintroduction of the manufacturing of high grade vehicles such as the Panther(Panzer V), the Tiger(Ppanzer VI), the Jagdpanther tank destroyer, the Arado Ar 232 jet bomber and the ME-262 multi-purpose fighter. By the end of Operation: Unthinkable, everything west to the Oder was soon retaken and occupied by Allied forces. After seven months of slowly retaking Germany the Red Army has lost its foothold within in Germany, which was occupied by four million troops, 750,000 of which were Wehrmacht. This then lead to the three year long Continuation War.
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