Berlin Destroyed: When The War Ended In 1945

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.