In April 1945, as Soviet armies smashed through Germany’s final defenses, Berlin prepared for the battle that would end the ...

American historian Alexander Motyl tackles a taboo subject in his new book A Russian in Berlin, a novel about memories of mass rape by Red Army troops of German women and pubescent girls in the summer ...

BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival ...

The Berlin Story Bunker is an immersive museum spread across five floors that invites visitors to explore centuries of Berlin and German history. World War II and Hitler are a major focus of the ...

In April 1945, Soviet forces launched the final assault on Berlin as the Third Reich collapsed around them. Street-by-street ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Gestapo chief Heinrich Mueller, the most senior Nazi whose fate has until now remained unknown, died in Berlin in 1945 and, in a chilling twist for an organizer of the Holocaust, ...

Covering the months from January to May in 1945, as Soviet and other Allied troops advanced to Berlin, freelance British historian Beevor (Stalingrad) opts for direct narrative with overheard quotes ...

The Soviet Union attempted to stop food and supplies reaching the western zones of Berlin in 1948. Niday/Alamy For a short period immediately after the end of the war in May 1945, cooperation between ...

“Dictators thrive not on love but on indifference,” said Kevin Peraino in The New York Times. That’s the underlying message of Ian Buruma’s “crisply told and uncomfortably relevant” new history of ...

THE ROAD from the Third Reich to modern Germany began in a field of rubble. The second world war had left behind enough of it to form a mountain 4,000 metres high, if it were piled up on the Nazi ...