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When Hitler’s last commanders knew Berlin would fall
In April 1945, Berlin was fire and rubble. Inside the bunkers, officers followed orders they knew were meaningless. The ...
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Helmuth Weidling: The last defender of Berlin
In April 1945, General Helmuth Weidling was ordered to defend a city already lost. Trapped inside Berlin with collapsing ...
“It was once German and may be German again,” Thomas Mann wrote in The Nation, “to win respect and admiration by the human contribution, by the power of the sovereign spirit.” The rear entrance to the ...
On the day the Red Army arrived in central Berlin in April 1945, Magda Wieland took shelter in the cellar of her apartment house. The first Soviet soldier to find her was a 16-year-old Central Asian ...
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