Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the ...

As Germany marks 80 years since the end of World War II, one historic Berlin site is grappling with how to commemorate the ...

Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th ...

That hardened into a Cold War division that saw two separate German states founded in 1949 and ultimately led to the building in 1961 of the Berlin Wall, which fell 28 years later as communist ...

shows vast areas of destruction in Berlin, after repeated Anglo-American air raids on the German capital. Seen on the left, center, is the heavily damaged building of the German Reichstag with its ...

everyone who wasn’t a Nazi was very ... Reichstag has been preserved at several places in the building. The military surrender of Berlin on May 2, 1945, wasn’t quite the end of the war.