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Elbe River

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Noun1.Elbe RiverElbe River - a river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea
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Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles


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The Cold War begins with the American and Russian armies converging on the Elbe River in Germany on April 25, 1945, five days before Adolf Hitler bit into a glass vial of cyanide and took a pistol to his own head.
How we won: John Lewis Gaddis's new history of the Cold War should be ... by Thompson, Nicholas / Washington Monthly
He remembers the division was scattered in various villages along the Elbe River.
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Paris was liberated in August, and on April 25, 1945, Allied troops, coming from the west, met up at the Elbe river near Torgau, Germany, with Soviet soldiers who had fought the Germans back from Stalingrad and Moscow on the eastern front.
D-day: the great invasion: sixty years ago this spring, Allied troops ... by Whitney, Craig R. / New York Times Upfront
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