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Germany, Russia > Battle of Berlin April-May 1945
Blood transfusion at an aid spot. Berlin. May 1945.
Photograph: Valery Faminsky Courtesy of Arthur Bondar
Rare Photos Show World War II From the Soviet Side The New York Times Nov. 29, 2016
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/
A wounded solder receiving first aid. Berlin. April 1945.
Photograph: Valery Faminsky Courtesy of Arthur Bondar
Rare Photos Show World War II From the Soviet Side NYT Nov. 29, 2016
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/
On the bridge over the Spree River. Berlin. May 1945.
Photograph: Valery Faminsky Courtesy of Arthur Bondar
Rare Photos Show World War II From the Soviet Side By James Estrin NYT Nov. 29, 2016
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/
Cleaning the streets of Berlin. May 1945.
Photograph: Valery Faminsky Courtesy of Arthur Bondar
Rare Photos Show World War II From the Soviet Side By James Estrin NYT Nov. 29, 2016
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/
Russian soldiers in Berlin at the end of the war.
Photograph: Hulton Getty
'Dancing on graves': Russia hits out at Berlin festival near burial site The Guardian Thursday 21 April 2016 15.59 BST Last modified on Thursday 21 April 2016 16.08 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/21/
Street fighting in Berlin during the battle to gain control of the German capital in April 1945.
Photograph: Hulton Getty
Under Boris Johnson, Putin and Trump the world has uncanny parallels to 1945 Russia on the offensive, Brexit Britain stands alone, and US disdain for European allies recalls its naivety with Stalin The Guardian Thu 7 May 2020 05.00 BST Last modified on Thu 7 May 2020 05.01 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/21/
7 May 1945
Germany signs unconditional surrender
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/7
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0502.html
At Yalta, the Soviet Union also agreed to join the war against Japan as soon as Germany was defeated.
The United States and Britain, shaken by the suicidal defence of Pacific islands, feared that storming Japan would cost up to half a million allied casualties.
At that stage, nobody knew whether the new atomic bomb would work.
In the meantime, General Curtis LeMay stepped up his bombing attacks.
On the night of 9 March, he sent his Superfortress squadrons on a fire-bombing raid against Tokyo.
The mainly wooden houses blazed into an inferno.
It is estimated that 97,000 people died, 125,000 were injured and 1 million left homeless.
On 6 April, US forces landed on Okinawa to seize it as a springboard for the invasion of Japan itself.
In Europe, the war was coming to a close.
The western allies were across the Rhine and advancing towards the river Elbe when, on 16 April, the Red Army unleashed "the Berlin Operation".
From Stettin on the Baltic to the Czech border, 23 Soviet armies with 2.5 million men opened a massive artillery barrage.
Yet despite their overwhelming strength, Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front took six days before its artillery was within range of Berlin.
Stalin had insisted on encircling the city first to make sure that the Americans would not get there beforehand from their bridgehead across the Elbe.
But Eisenhower had decided to hold back his forces, to Churchill's exasperation.
As Soviet forces closed in on the centre of Berlin, Hitler committed suicide with his new wife, Eva Braun, on 30 April.
The leadership of the Nazi state was transferred to Grand Admiral Dönitz in Flensburg, but his was a phantom government.
The final surrender was signed in Berlin at midnight on 8 May. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/10/second-world-war-liberation-europe
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/10/
21 April 1945
Red Army enters outskirts of Berlin
Stalin's attempt to take Berlin ahead of his allies in 1945, led to the death of 70,000 Russian soldiers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/berlin_01.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/21/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/berlin_01.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0502.html
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/15/
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32529679 - 1 May 2015
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/17/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/10/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/01/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/apr/20/
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