The Battle Of Berlin: May 2nd 1945 – The End Of Nazi Berlin
…General Weidling surrenders with his staff to the Soviets…Weidling orders that the city’s remaining defenders should surrender…the storming of the Reich Chancellery…the Red Army control the Reichstag entirely…the Zoo Flak tower is taken…Soviet artillery stops firing…
The Battle Of Berlin: May 1st 1945 – The Storming Of The Zitadelle
…The remnants of the Berlin Defence Area attempt to break out…Joseph Goebbels commits suicide…General Krebs meets Vasily Chuikov to try to negotiate a ceasefire…Stalin is informed of Hitler’s suicide…the Zoologischer Garten is taken…Spandau Citadel surrenders…Hitler’s death is announced to the world…
The Battle Of Berlin: April 30th 1945 – The Red Banner Flies High
…The Soviets enter the Reichstag building and raise the flag of the Red Army…General Weidling informs Hitler that the defenders will soon exhaust their ammunition…Hitler gives permission for an attempted breakout…Field Marshall Schörner, still struggling further south of Berlin, is made the last Commander in Chief of the German Army…the Glienicke Brücke is destroyed…Hitler and Eva commit suicide…liberation of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp…
The Battle Of Berlin: April 29th 1945 – The Soviet Assault On The Reichstag
…Soviet forces drive into the west of the city and capture the Charlottenburg Palace…Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun…Hitler dictates and signs his political testament…the 3rd Shock Army crosses the Moltkebrücke and starts its assault on the buildings surrounding the Reichstag…Hitler hears of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini’s execution in Milan…