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Berlin still bears scars 80 years after pivotal battle that sealed the defeat of Nazi Germany
Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over the Nazis in an intense fight for the German ...
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Berlin still bears scars 80 years after pivotal battle that sealed the defeat of Nazi Germany
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 ...
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Berlin still bears scars 80 years after pivotal battle that sealed the defeat of Nazi Germany
BERLIN — 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 ...
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Manchester's VE Day celebrations in May 1945 captured in incredible photos
When Allied forces surrounded Berlin, Nazi Germany signed an unconditional surrender. In Britain, the news of a German surrender had been anticipated for some time. Late on May 7, 1945 ...
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Walter Frankenstein, who survived the Holocaust by hiding in Berlin, dies at 100
In 1945, when Berlin was liberated by the Soviet Red Army, Frankenstein’s children were among the youngest of a total of only 25 Jewish children who had survived in Berlin.
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Walter Frankenstein, who survived the Holocaust by hiding in Berlin, dies at 100
BERLIN — Walter Frankenstein, who survived the Holocaust by hiding in Berlin with his wife and infant children and spent his later years educating young people to keep the events alive in memory ...
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The Zeitenwende Is Real This Time
Europe was mostly peaceful from 1945 to 2014 in part because Europeans rejected ... a united Germany reduced its army and was content to spend little on defense. Berlin posed no threats. Germany’s ...
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80 years after Edward R. Murrow revealed the horrors of Buchenwald, the camp still has a vital story to tell
Weimar, Germany — On April 12, 1945, CBS News correspondent Edward ... a British bomber as it carried out raids in the skies over Berlin, Murrow delivered detailed, unflinching accounts in ...