Berlin finally fell after more than two weeks ... A depleted and disorganised garrison of about 95,000 faced two full Soviet army groups attacking from the east and south. In total, some 1.5 ...

The Soviet race to Berlin began on April 15 from positions east of the city, and by the morning of April 21, 1945, staff officers at the German army and armed forces joint headquarters at Zossen ...

April 12: Roosevelt dies; Harry Truman becomes president. April 21: The Red Army of the Soviet Union reaches Berlin. April 25-26: Soviet and American forces link up at the River Elbe. April 30 ...

Raymond D'Addario was 26 years old when the U.S. Army assigned him to photograph ... time in the former Nazi capital of Berlin, which was occupied by Soviet, American, British and French troops.

Her family “makes enough food for an army, which always makes ... naming the current president of the Berlin Jewish Community, Gideon Joffe. Born to Soviet immigrant Jews in Israel, he moved ...

Although it was the highly successful T-34 that led the Soviet Union to Berlin, it was outdated by ... in 1946, the Red Army adopted the successor of the T-34 and T-44 -- the T-54.