"The Fall of Berlin 1945" Quotes

The city has vanished, and the place where it stood is now a lake of fire.

The Soviet artillery and Katyusha rocket launchers had pounded the city into a gray sea of ruins.

The drunken soldiers, many of them wounded, who had lost their units wandered aimlessly through the burning ruins.

The Berlin Zoo, once one of the most famous in the world, had become a grotesque charnel house.

The smell of death pervaded the city, rising from the corpses and the ruins.

The endless columns of refugees trudged westwards, fleeing the advancing Red Army and the horrors it brought with it.

The women who were raped by the Soviet soldiers had to endure unimaginable suffering.

The once proud and mighty German army was now a broken and defeated force.

The civilian population, trapped in the city, faced starvation and disease.

The battle for Berlin was one of the bloodiest and most brutal in history.