There are more people on foot than cars on the Berlin Autobahn (Avus). Some Berliners return to the completely destroyed city with only the bare necessities. But many of them want to head west as ...

FILE - A view taken from a Cub artillery observation plane on July 10, 1945, shows vast areas of destruction in Berlin, after repeated Anglo-American air raids on the German capital. Seen on the left, ...

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 ...

The war was ending, but the fighting on the Eastern Front was at its most desperate. Germany's formidable Panther—arguably ...

At the beginning of 1945, Berlin remains under the spell of the Nazi promise of salvation. But its people's hopes are at odds with the city’s daily reality. On 30 April, the Red Flag flies over the ...

On this day in history, May 8, 1945, President Harry Truman announced to the American people that Nazi Germany's forces had surrendered in World War II — and that "the flags of freedom fly all over ...

BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival ...