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 as the ...

More than 100 firefighters battled on Thursday to contain a fire that triggered explosions and burned out of control after it broke out at an ammunitions dump in western Berlin, officials said.

The final Battle of Berlin in late April and early May 1945 reduced much of what was left of the city to rubble, as eyewitness Eva-Maria Kolb, now 89, remembers. The Associated Press.

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.

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 ...

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. Monday, May 5 50°F / Cape Girardeau.

FILE - A view of the burned-out ruins of the German Reichstag in Berlin in this photo from August 1945, three months after the Nazis surrendered to the Allied Powers on May 8, 1945. (AP Photo, file) ...

AP1945. 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.

‘This marked the end’ Post-war Berlin was divided into sectors controlled by the wartime allies. That hardened into a Cold War division that saw two separate German states founded in 1949 and ...