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Between April 16 and May 2, 1945, a vicious battle raged between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazi troops who remained in ...

Dutch researcher Krijn Thijs investigated how the history of Berlin was written in the twentieth century. In this period Berlin passed through six forms of government, all of which used the historical ...

Could you have done it? One family zip-lined to freedom -- in a home-crafted zip line. A woman escaped hiding in a hollowed-out surfboard strapped atop her car. Two other families made it in an ...

Compressing a momentous year of wartime history into a few sentences, a new State Department pamphlet titled Background—Berlin, 1961 has drawn strong complaints from Republican Congressmen because it ...

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How many lives can one city have? Quite a few if the city is Berlin. Royal capital, imperial seat, economic powerhouse, center of enlightenment … before becoming a synonym for decadence in the 1920s ...

This article is part of our series of explainers on key moments in the past 100 years of world political history. In it, our authors examine how and why an event unfolded, its impact at the time, and ...

An overview of the militant squatters' movement in West Berlin in the early 1980s - and the state's attempts to clamp down on it. Submitted by Fozzie on April 5, 2021 WEST BERLIN has a history, of ...