Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the ...

Large pock marks on sidewalks or bridges? Warfare damage still visible after the Battle for Berlin in spring 1945. That dip in a city square? That’s where the Germans buried a tank during a ...

The final Battle of Berlin in late April and early May 1945 reduced much of what was left of the city to rubble. The Soviet military attacked from several directions with an enormous concentration ...

FILE - A view taken from a Cub artillery observation plane on July 10, 1945, shows vast areas of destruction in Berlin, after repeated Anglo-American air raids on the German capital. Seen on the ...