As the Red Army closed in on Berlin in the spring of 1945, the war became a collapse rather than a battlefield. This final chapter follows one young Waffen-SS soldier through the city’s last days, ...

A powerful video in color of the devastated city of Berlin, shot in July 1945, just months after Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II, has been making the rounds online. The archival footage, ...

Life in Berlin in 1945 before, during and after the battle of Berlin seen through the eyes of those who were there at the time from common Berliners to Allied troops.