Ian Buruma was drawn to wartime Berlin because his father, a Dutchman was pressed into factory work there from 1943 to 1945 ...
As Soviet forces closed in from every direction, Berlin became a city of ruins and resistance. SS veterans, teenage fighters, and scattered German units turned streets into fortresses and cellars into ...
FILE - A view taken from a Cub artillery observation plane on July 10, 1945, shows vast areas of destruction in Berlin, after repeated Anglo-American air raids on the German capital. Seen on the left, ...