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The Berlin Airlift
April 12: Roosevelt dies; Harry Truman becomes president. April 21: The Red Army of the Soviet Union reaches Berlin. April 25-26: Soviet and American forces link up at the River Elbe. April 30 ...
From Berlin With Love: Ukraine Is About To Fire Germany’s Best Cruise Missiles From Its Old Soviet Bombers
A German air force Tornado with a Taurus. German defense ministry photo. The German Taurus is a 1.5-ton cruise missile with a ...
'Victory Over Nazism': Russia President Putin Invites PM Modi To Moscow For 80th Anniversary Celebration
Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the 80th anniversary of the Victory over ...
On This Day: U.S. begins daytime bombing of Berlin in WWII
On March 6, 1944, during World War II, U.S. bombers flying from Britain began the first daytime attacks on Berlin.
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Soviet immigration, once a bane of Germany’s Jews, has become their salvation
Her family “makes enough food for an army, which always makes ... naming the current president of the Berlin Jewish Community, Gideon Joffe. Born to Soviet immigrant Jews in Israel, he moved ...
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Berlin After World War II
Raymond D'Addario was 26 years old when the U.S. Army assigned him to photograph ... time in the former Nazi capital of Berlin, which was occupied by Soviet, American, British and French troops.