As the Allies closed in during the spring of 1945, Berlin became the stage for Nazi Germany’s desperate last stand. This video traces the brutal street fighting, the final decisions of Hitler’s inner ...

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Prologue: Bombing Bulgaria -- The sorcerer's apprentice: Bomber Command 1939-42 -- The Casablanca Offensive: the Allies over Germany 1943-4 -- The "Battle of Germany", 1944-5 -- The logic of total war ...

BERLIN — 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. After decades of division and its revival as the ...