A new history and analysis of the German and Soviet armored forces fighting in the eastern German territories in the final months of World War II. The last months of World War II on the Eastern Front saw the Wehrmacht fighting with depleted armored units, albeit now equipped with the most advanced and heaviest tanks of the war, trying to slow the Soviet advance. Meanwhile, the Red Army advanced relentlessly westward, with its own developed armored forces equipped with T34/85 and the large IS-2 tanks, aiming to capture Berlin and as much German territory as possible. This book offers a history and analysis of the conditions of these two powerful armored forces, as their battles decided the fate of Germany. It covers their initial encounters on the German borders in 1944 (East Prussia), the battles of the Oder-Vistula Offensive in January 1945, and describes the condition of the German armored forces and their Hungarian allies as they pushed back. Additionally, it examines the huge influence of the Red Army and other significant Allied forces, such as those from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania, on the victory in the war.