Berlin 1945
Red Army storming the city: Reichstag falls, Hitler dies... but mass rapes, looting, revenge killings scar the victory.
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#BattleofBerlin raged May 1945, German forces were nearing collapse. The #RedArmy was closing in from the east, and #Hitler's bunker was all but sealed.
However, some of the final defenders of Berlin weren’t German they were foreign volunteers fighting for the #Nazis
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Years ago I suggested a battlefield walk of the #BattleofBerlin. A friend sent a book - this week completed the final sector from the book - Berzarin’s 5th Shock Army. Later we for dinner with historian Alex Richie, & @ssyu.bsky.social & Joe who brought gifts from the New World.
Dead German Soldier besides the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in April 1945.
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Dead German Soldier besides the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in April 1945.
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Dead German Soldier besides the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in April 1945.
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A Berlin resident with her belongings on a bridge over the Spree River.
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Luftwaffe soldiers, German sailors and Volksturm (militiamen) captured in Berlin in the last days of the war. Photo credit: "Hitler's Last Reserves".
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Semi-gliders of the Dnieper military flotilla on the Spree in Berlin near the Oberbaumbrücke bridge
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1. The Arizona Memorial (Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i).
2. The Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany).
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German prisoners of war on the Unter den Linden boulevard near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, captured by Soviet troops. Prisoners of war from the hospital, which was located in the Hotel Adlon.
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Red Army artillerymen fire a 76.2 mm ZiS-3 divisional gun on a Berlin street. Still from a newsreel.
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“History is very tiresome.”
“Tomorrow I'm going to look for nettles and try to find some coal."
- Anonymous (1945)
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Red Army soldiers run past a destroyed church on a Berlin street.
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Red Army soldiers armed with Sudaev submachine guns (PPS) at a doorway during a battle in Berlin.
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On this day eighty years ago:
The end of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.
The Battle of Berlin continues…
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Red Army soldiers rest on a 76-mm divisional gun ZiS-3 (in transport position) on a street in Berlin.
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A crew loads a BM-13 rocket launcher during the final battles in Berlin.
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Destroyed and dismantled German Fw.190 fighters at Berlin-Tempelhof Airport
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A Red Army machine gunner during a battle in Berlin. Lying on the ground is probably a captured German soldier.
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📸 Soviet artillerymen write on shells "To Hitler", "To Berlin", "To the Reichstag". In the background is a 203-mm howitzer B-4.
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Soviet officers work with a map near a column of T-34-85 tanks on a Berlin street.
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A #Volkssturm militiaman armed with a "Panzerschreck" grenade launcher in a trench near Berlin
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Commander of the 16th Air Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General Sergei Ignatyevich Rudenko (20.10.1904 - 10.07.1990) at an airfield in Germany.
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Soviet soldiers fire a 45mm anti-tank gun model 1942 (M-42) on a Berlin street.
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A destroyed German 88mm Flak 36/37 anti-aircraft gun in the Tiergarten park in Berlin.
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Soviet officers at the charred bodies of Goebbels and his wife Magda.
Second from the right is the captured German Vice Admiral Hans-Erich Voss (1897-1969), who identified the bodies of Goebbels and his family.
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Red Army soldiers in battle on the Belle-Alliance-Platz square in Berlin. From 1946 to the present day, the square has been called Mehringplatz.
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Semi-gliders of the Dnieper military flotilla ferry troops across the Spree River in Berlin
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The crew of a Soviet T-34-85 tank in front of their vehicle in a suburb of Berlin.
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