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 estimated 25 million of the country's civilians and ...

Journey back in time to Berlin's most fateful year - 1945 - through the eyes and voices of those who experienced it - ordinary German people and the Allies who entered the city.

Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin In February 1945, three men met in a holiday resort to decide the fate of the world. Nazi Germany was on its knees. Soviet troops were closing in on Berlin ...

Germany, on this day in history, Dec. 21, 1945. He was 60 years old. Patton was paralyzed in an auto accident on Dec. 9. "Old Blood and Guts" died in the hospital of a blood clot in his heart.

The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimean Conference, was a wartime meeting of the leaders of the Allied Powers—the ...

Other interesting exhibits that detail Berlin between 1933 and 1945 are found on the grounds ... at 3:30 p.m. (Most exhibits are listed in German and English.) You'll want to sign up at the ...

It looks at the origins of the conflict; the course of the war, from the partition of Poland to the fall of Berlin ... The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945 (London, 2008). Saul Friedländer, The Years of ...