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Nazi Germany: The Last Days

A dream shattered: A German soldier sits morosely near the Reichstag


OVER A MILLION GERMANS DIED IN LAST 100 DAYS OF THE WAR ON THE OSTFRONT

Berlin operation from April 16 to May 8, '45 put 400,000 killed 
Prague operation from 5 to 9 May 1945, in Prague, another 40,000 were killed. 
Upper-operation (15-31 March 1945) - more than 40,000 were killed 
East Prussian operation (January 13-April 25, 1945) - 150,000 killed 
East Pomeranian Offensive (February 10 - April 4, 1945) - 53,000 killed. 
Balaton defensive operation (March 1-15, 1945). - 39,000 killed 
Moravska Ostrava operation (March 10-May 5, 1945) - more than 100,000 dead 
Vienna operation (March 16-April 15, 1945) - 41,000 killed 
Bratislava Brnovskaya-operation (March 25-May 5, 1945) - more than 70,000 killed 
Koenigsberg operation (6-9 April 1945) - 60,000 killed. 
Nizhneselezskaya offensive (8-24 February 1945) - 36,000 killed 
Kurland operation (elimination boiler May 15, 1945) - 34,000 killed 
Western Carpathian operation (January 12-February 18, 1945) -
Total: 1,063,000 Germans died in the last 100 days of the war.


The only man left: Field Marshal Keitel sits down to surrender


This is what remains of a German Personnel Carrier with ten barreled mortar

Brandenburg Gate, once a symbol of a proud nation lies broken as the conquerors swarm around

Berlin in May 1945: A ruined city
Broken, defeated men: Captured pilots of the Luftwaffe

Keitel walks to surrender

The guns fell silent in Berlin: Last men of the Wehrmacht to surrender

The fight is over. The remaining German soldiers who were left alive surrender to triumphant Russians

The children of Joseph Goebbels: He killed them so that they would not fall into Russian hands
The Russians start distributing food to starving people of Berlin

The skies over Berlin: Once Luftwaffe planes proudly flew; now Russian planes dominate the air over the once-proud capital of the Third Reich

Death and destruction in the East Prussian city of Pilau

"Dragon's Teeth': German fortifications to ward off the approaching Russians, west of Berlin

A column of German POWS. Once they were hailed as heroes by the people; now they get sad or indifferent stares
A Russian soldier takes over the traffic east of Berlin

Soviet tanks trundle through Berlin

Russian soldiers march into Vienna, as Austria too fell. April 1945
Berlin in April end, 1945




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