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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/second_world_war/topics/1669-11552/">CBC Archives</a> CBC Radio reports on the Russian and American meeting at Torgau on May 1, 1945.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Govan, Gregory G., The Spirit of Torgau, U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Russia <a href="https://ru.usembassy.gov/the-spirit-of-torgau/" target="_blank">https://ru.usembassy.gov/the-spirit-of-torgau/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Dzharmukhambetov, Miral (2021-05-08), Meeting on the Elbe: Kazakh Soldier Among First to Meet with American Allies, Aktobe: The Astana Times <a href="https://astanatimes.com/2021/05/meeting-on-the-elbe-kazakh-soldier-among-first-to-meet-with-american-allies/" target="_blank">https://astanatimes.com/2021/05/meeting-on-the-elbe-kazakh-soldier-among-first-to-meet-with-american-allies/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Passera, Rudy (2022-04-06), War in Ukraine today, the Elbe River linkup April 25, 1945 yesterday! <a href="https://www.normandyamericanheroes.com/blog/war-in-ukraine-today-and-the-linkup-on-the-elbe-river-april-25-1945" target="_blank">https://www.normandyamericanheroes.com/blog/war-in-ukraine-today-and-the-linkup-on-the-elbe-river-april-25-1945</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Bedessem, Edward (2022-04-06), Central Europe, The U.S. Army campaigns of WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, archived from the original on December 13, 2007 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071213063321/http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/centeur/centeur.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20071213063321/http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/centeur/centeur.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Lange, Karl - Heinz, "April 1945 in Torgau" (PDF), The Robertson Patrol, archived from the original on February 22, 2012 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120222041912/http://www.69th-infantry-division.com/lange-book/Lange-April-1945-in-Torgau-The-Robertson-Patrol-Pages-10-15-updated-16-Nov-2009.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120222041912/http://www.69th-infantry-division.com/lange-book/Lange-April-1945-in-Torgau-The-Robertson-Patrol-Pages-10-15-updated-16-Nov-2009.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>MacDonald, Charles B. (1993), The Last Offensive (PDF), Washington, D.C.: Center for Military History, United States Army, p. 462, archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24, retrieved 2012-01-12. <a href="/wiki/Charles_B._MacDonald" target="_blank">/wiki/Charles_B._MacDonald</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"RUSSIANS TAKE OVER MAGDEBURG". Daily Mercury. 3 July 1945. <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170666891" target="_blank">https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170666891</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Russian and American troops meet in Leipzig, Germany on 3 July 1945". <a href="https://www.ww2online.org/image/russian-and-american-troops-meet-leipzig-germany-3-july-1945" target="_blank">https://www.ww2online.org/image/russian-and-american-troops-meet-leipzig-germany-3-july-1945</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"Thuringia under American Occupation (April until July 1945)" (PDF). <a href="https://www.lztthueringen.de/media/huringia_under_american_occupation.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.lztthueringen.de/media/huringia_under_american_occupation.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"April 1945 Death March and Forest Camp". <a href="https://www.below-sbg.de/en/history/april-1945-death-march-and-forest-camp/" target="_blank">https://www.below-sbg.de/en/history/april-1945-death-march-and-forest-camp/</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"Chronology Of Contacts Between Units of the 9th Infantry Divsion [sic] Units of the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front on the Elbe River at Dessau and Pratau, Germany, April, 1945". <a href="https://www.ibiblio.org/45wwiiresources/327/327th.html" target="_blank">https://www.ibiblio.org/45wwiiresources/327/327th.html</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"US and Soviet troops meet near Linz, Austria". 2 May 1945. <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/photo/us-and-soviet-troops-meet-near-linz-austria" target="_blank">https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/photo/us-and-soviet-troops-meet-near-linz-austria</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>"Homepage>History of the City>Timeline>20th Century>1938-1945". www.stadtgeschichte.linz.at. <a href="https://stadtgeschichte.linz.at/english/11576.php" target="_blank">https://stadtgeschichte.linz.at/english/11576.php</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>"NZ soldiers and Yugoslav partisans". <a href="https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/nz-soldiers-and-yugoslavian-partisans" target="_blank">https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/nz-soldiers-and-yugoslavian-partisans</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>"Italy Volume II : From Cassino to Trieste II: Confrontation with the Yugoslavs". <a href="https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-2Ita-c12-2.html" target="_blank">https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-2Ita-c12-2.html</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>Dickerson, Bryan J. (2011), From Liberation to Confrontation: The U.S. Army and Czechoslovakia 1945 to 1948, published online: militaryhistory.com. <a href="http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/articles/usarmyczechoslovakia.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/articles/usarmyczechoslovakia.aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>