The French had long since surrendered, and only the free French movement led by de Gaulle did not have much military strength, but the British wanted to rush into Berlin ahead of the Russians, but were stopped by the allied commander, General Eisenhower.
In the Battle of Berlin, the Soviet casualties were 360,000, the Germans were 450,000, and the Allies did not participate in the battle, and Eisenhower said after the war that the reason why he gave Berlin to the Soviets was because he knew that attacking Berlin would pay a heavy price.
From the perspective of the military, Eisenhower was worried that the capture of Berlin would bring unbearable casualties to the Allies on the Western Front, so he made a move and let Stalin's Soviet Red Army attack the German capital.
But Eisenhower did not reveal another detail, that is, in early 1945, the Soviet army sweeping through Eastern Europe won the victory in the Hungarian Campaign, the final victory on the Eastern Front was just around the corner, stalin and the supreme commander of the Allied forces on the Western Front, Eisenhower, after consultation, decided that the task of capturing the German capital Berlin would be entrusted to the Red Army.
Thus, in February 1945, the Yalta Conference held by the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom determined that the Occupation of Germany by the Soviet and Allied Forces was bounded by the Elbe River, and the East of the Elbe River was occupied by the Soviet Army, which meant that the Soviet Army would undertake the task of conquering Berlin.
The capture of Berlin was an important sign of victory in the anti-fascist war, although the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain had an appointment first, but in the battlefield filled with smoke, no one could stop the British Marshal Montgomery who liked to be in the limelight.
By this time, the Soviet army had not yet moved, montgomery's British 21st Army had rushed from the west of the Elbe to the nearest road to Berlin, and the American troops crossing the Rhine were also advancing rapidly to the east, and their forwards had opened a landing field on the Elbe to Berlin.
At a critical juncture in relation to the division of political interests between East and West after the war, General Eisenhower, the allied supreme commander, sent a telegram to Moscow stating that Allied military action was limited to severing the German north-south link, which was tantamount to telling Moscow and montgomery that the Allies had no intention of conquering Berlin.
As for the British wanting to attack Berlin, they were prepared to limit the expansion of the Soviet Union in Europe, so that Britain had a greater say in Europe, so after the defeat of Germany, Churchill was ready to open fire with the Soviet Union, but was stopped by the Americans.
In fact, the American vision and the overall situation far exceeded the British, before the end of World War II, the "Bretton Woods Agreement" was established, so that the dollar was linked to gold; after the war, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, etc., to manipulate international affairs and financial systems and other large-scale money, the former empire did not set, only the United States shoes.
At that time, the capture of Berlin was not of great interest to the United States, and it could only be regarded as a wedding dress for Britain and European countries, but it was better to let the Soviet Union occupy it, so that the entire Western European countries could obey the orders of the United States.
Occupy Berlin, the US military will pay at least 100,000 people for the cost of life, to obtain a liberator's false name, for the United States, which attaches great importance to the lives of soldiers, it is not worth it, even if berlin is occupied, it will be re-allocated to the Soviet Union when negotiations are held, this kind of trade will never be done by the old United States, it is better to let the Soviets act as heroes, and sure enough, the Soviet Red Army after a bloody battle, the red flag was planted in the Berlin Reichstag, and more than 300,000 casualties were also inflicted.