This is a selection of the best images submitted as part of our Germany Direct season. We start with Alan P Thompson's shot of the Berchtesgaden ... was also taking pictures around the Reichstag ...

Flight Sergeant Douglas Alexander, of 460 Squadron, took part in nearly 40 bombing raids over Germany, including the famous assault on Hitler's mountain retreat, Berchtesgaden. As a tail gunner ...

This marked the beginning of Berchtesgaden's significant historical journey, from a peaceful mountain retreat to a key Nazi headquarters. The town was later heavily bombed in 1945.

Maj. Dick Winters, Lewis Nixon, Harry Welsh, and two other battalion staff members, celebrate VE-Day in Berchtesgaden, Germany. The 7th Infantry Regiment attached to the 3rd Infantry Division ...

Some 200 people are involved in the operation, near Berchtesgaden in southern Germany. The first rescuers reached the man in the vertical cave on Monday. A second group, including an Austrian ...

Maj. Dick Winters, Lewis Nixon, Harry Welsh, and two other battalion staff members, celebrate VE-Day in Berchtesgaden, Germany. The 7th Infantry Regiment attached to the 3rd Infantry Division ...

Some 200 people are involved in the operation, near Berchtesgaden in southern Germany.