Berlin has always been a proud city. Prouder still was it under the rule of Nazis. But it saw a destruction that still shakes us up when we see the images of a broken Berlin in April 1945.
It was not only the German women who were raped. Berlin too was raped.
One of the last images of Hitler. On April 20, 1945.
The Brandenburg Gate and view of the Soviet Berlin
Schöneberg
Palace Kaiser
The anti-aircraft complex in the Tiergarten district
A broken Reichstag
Soviet soldiers wrote all over the walls of the Reichstag
View of the Reichstag from the edge of the Tiergarten. A road leads to the Brandenburg Gate
Dilapidated Reichschancellery the Wilhelmstrasse. Behind it in the garden was the entrance to Hitler's bunker (Fuehrerbunker)
In Reichschancellery
The ruined garden behind the Reich Chancellery
Goebbels' room in the Fuehrer's bunker
Americans in the garden of Reich Chancellery. In this trench Kempka burned the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun
The main building of the Gestapo at Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse
Ministry of Propaganda in the Wilhelmstrasse - Goebbels' office
The ruins of the American Embassy
State Opera on Unter den Linden
The ruins of Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
Remains of a German Panther
Obervalshtrasse -this place saw a lot of last desperate fighting
Germans stumble back into Berlin
The German people wait for a bus
Brandenburg Gate witnessed the destruction of German manhood
At the Brandenburg Gate. American soldier women smartly salute their Russian counterpart.
Head of the Soviet occupation zone of Berlin, Major-General Nikolai Barinov communicates through an interpreter with the U.S. General Omar Bradley.
It was not only the German women who were raped. Berlin too was raped.
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