In the spring of 1945, Berlin faced an assault unlike anything in its history as Soviet forces closed in from multiple directions under commanders Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev. Millions of artillery ...

As the Red Army closed in on Berlin in the spring of 1945, the war became a collapse rather than a battlefield. This final chapter follows one young Waffen-SS soldier through the city’s last days, ...

When Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins on Wednesday night, it will mark the start of an annual period in which Jewish people around the world will take time to reflect on starting fresh in ...

The Berlin Conference of the Three Heads of Government of the U. S. S. R., U. S. A., and U. K., which took place from July 17 to August 2, 1945, came to the following conclusions: I. ESTABLISHMENT OF ...

Michael Brettin and Peter Kroh, trans. from the German by Cindy Opitz. Berlinica (IPS, dist.), $25.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-935902-02-7 Somber and sobering, the images in this black-and-white collection ...

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