Under a nondescript parking lot in Berlin lie the remains of the shelter that was the final scene of the Nazi dictatorship, ...

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 capital ...

At the Chuikov headquarters arrived one officer ... between the Western zones (American and English) and Berlin which runs through the Soviet Zone. It's about two hundred kilometers from Berlin ...

The Soviet leadership responded to the Western allies' currency reforms by installing their own new currency in East Berlin just 24 hours before the West mark was to go into circulation.

April 30: Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker under the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Adm. Karl Dönitz succeeds him as Germany’s head of state. — May 2: Soviet forces complete their ...

This study reveals that the losses suffered by the Soviet forces at Stalingrad were every bit as bad, if not worse, than those suffered by the Germans. Ultimately, Chuikov was able to hold the city ...

The lifting of the Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin in 1949 marked a significant turning point in the early stages of the Cold War. The blockade had begun in June 1948, when the Soviet Union ...

These rules will remain in effect from 6 AM on May 8 to 10 PM on May 9 at three Soviet memorials in Berlin - in Treptower Park, in Tiergarten and in Pankow. The Ribbon of St. George, the symbols ...

The final Battle of Berlin in late April and early May 1945 reduced much of what was left of the city to rubble. The Soviet military attacked from several directions with an enormous concentration ...