Fall of Berlin

Considered as one of the final battles of World War II in Europe, the Battle of Berlin symbolized the destined failure of the Nazi's "thousand year empire".

German Side of the Event
As the War approached to an end, the German loss was in sight. On Hitler's birthday of April 20, 1945, the Soviets began the battle of Berlin. People had already began losing faith in the German Army as the Russians sieged the city. The Nazi forced children who were unwilling to fight the losing war to their deaths as the soviet approached. The Nazis began to execute people who didn't want to fight anymore or those that disobeyed. When they ran out of trees to hang people, they began to use lightposts. There were small kids who were forced to hide in trenches trembling with fear. They were told to blow the Russian tanks with a gernade as the approach yet the kids were too frightened to even know how to use the gernade.

As the Russian came into the cities, the Germans cilivillans began trying to hide from the communist, hoping that the US could come so they could surrender to them instead. The Soviets began looting the houses door-by-door, street-by-street, the banks were robbed of its jewelery, the shops of its provisions. Hunger became a problem as the Germans continued to hide from the Soviet shellings and gunfires. Then on May 8, 1945 the fighting stopped and Berlin was in the hands of the Soviets.

The Allies Side of the Battle
The Battle of Berlin was known as a bloody and crazy battle. As it end, the Russians held parties of celebration for their soldier that fought in Berlin. Yet the sight in Berlin was great horror. It is uncountable of how many people died in the city. It was one of the deadliest street to street fightings ever. The Russians said that the Germans went crazy and began killing civillians with their gunfire. It was also crazy nazis who killed anyone that said the word surrender or retreat. Yet as they had in the Battle of Stalingrad earlier before, it was surrender and retreat that the nazis did. It was in Berlin, once the largest inland city in Europe, now covered with blood, where the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and the ambition of one man's "Thousand Year Reich" came to an end.