With Hitler’s suicide and Soviet tanks rolling across the Spree, Berlin descended into chaos. At Königsplatz, exhausted ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, holes from artillery fire are still visible on the facade of a house in the city center of Berlin, Germany, Friday, May 2, 2025. (Markus Schreiber/AP) ...

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.