End of the War in Europe

Source # 1 - Video about the Allied bombing raid on the German city of Hamburg - click here

Source # 2 - Video on German tactics and actions in the end of the war - click here

Source # 3 - This clip is a set of scenes from the German movie "Downfall" about the Battle for Berlin at the end of World War Two - click here

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This clip follows the story of a young German boy fighting in the Hitler Youth at the end of the war. It provides a story for the famous picture, shown below, of Hitler awarding medals to Hitler Youth soldiers in the last days of the war.

Source # 4 - Russian Graffiti in the German Reichstag (Parliament) - After the reunification of Germany in 1990, the Reichstag Building (Parliament building) was rebuilt to be the new capital building for Germany - it had stood in ruins since the end of World War Two. During the process of rebuilding the Reichstag workers discovered graffiti made by Russian soldiers who captured the building at the end of the war. The graffiti includes phrases like "Hitler is dead" and "Death to Germans". The graffiti is on walls of the hallway outside the room where the German parliament meets. The German government made the decision to preserve the graffiti.