2023年12月12日 · Berlin after the War was a post-apocalyptic world. One of the largest and most modern cities in Europe was left a wasteland. There were vast piles of rubble everywhere. Other areas were rows of building walls with collapsed interiors — the skeletons of a destroyed city.

The entirety of Germany was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II, from the Berlin Declaration on 5 June 1945 to the establishment of West Germany on 23 May 1949.

After the war ends on 8 May 1945, much of Berlin is nothing but rubble: 600,000 apartments have been destroyed, and only 2.8 million of the city’s original population of 4.3 million still live in the city.

2023年5月3日 · On May 8, 1945, German forces surrendered to the Red Army, bringing the Second World War to a close. Almost eight decades later, a peaceful city has emerged from the rubble. Traces of war and Nazi horrors remain visible to this day, but Berlin’s landmarks now appear in a new light.

2015年5月9日 · It’s been 70 years since the end of World War II in Europe. The German leadership signed the unconditional surrender after a final battle that flattened Berlin. Some 600,000 apartments were...

2020年7月18日 · The war in Europe ended in May 1945 after the Soviet Red Army, supported by Allied air power, stormed into central Berlin, capturing Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s bunker and hoisting the communist...

2020年5月8日 · After nearly four years of intense fighting, Soviet forces finally launched their assault on Berlin on 16 April 1945. Nazi Germany had invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 and killed an...

2022年12月26日 · After World War II, USSR and Allied representatives in Berlin had to tackle two problems at the same time: to restore the city ravaged by hostilities and rid it of the Nazi architecture.

2015年5月5日 · The color video captures a slice of life in the German capital just two months after the fall of the Nazis.

After the war, the Tiergarten park in the city center was a wasteland. The people of Berlin had cut down the trees to use as firewood. Buildings in Alexanderplatz, which had been a bustling...