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The men fighting in Germany were either battle-hardened or green recruits, but all of them were sleepless and racing to end the war at breakneck speed. In spite of Allied superiority in weaponry, divisions often had to fight in close quarters with hand-to-hand combat. Limited maneuverability in small German towns resulted in heavy losses. The culmination of the war in Europe brought with it the most mechanized force the planet had ever seen with the sheer firepower of the United States military. American troops encountered some of the most tenacious and ruthless fighting of the war and faced the cruelest and vilest of human nature as they liberated concentration camps throughout the region. Small offensives, cutting supply lines, and rounding up fractured German units was far from the reality of the situation, however. Germany in April 1945 is often depicted as the Allies capturing scattered Axis soldiers and liberating citizens from the clutches of the Third Reich. Ten months after the D-Day invasion, Allied forces were sweeping through western Europe. Criss is the supervisor of the National Archives Motion Picture Preservation Lab.