On the afternoon of April 12, 1945, Vice President Harry S. Truman was just starting to relax after a day of presiding over the Senate when he was urgently summoned to the White House. There he received the unwelcome news that President Franklin Roosevelt had died and that he was now president.
In mid-April 1945, the 9th US Army, commanded by Lieutenant General William H. Simpson, advanced rapidly across Germany and reached the Elbe River, establishing bridgeheads near Magdeburg and Tangermünde by April 12-13, 1945. They halted their advance roughly 50 miles from Berlin, acting on orders to let Soviet forces take the city.
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