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Operation ‘Salute’ and the last raid on Berlin
2025-04-24 14:48:58 UTC‘In the evening, Russian bombers attacked our district (Kreuzberg) for 2 hours. Our building suffered extensive damage from the percussion of the explosions.’ – Peter Hannemann’s mother diary, April 25, 1945 –
Photo: © Russian Ministry of Defense, 2020 On 24/25 April, 1945, 80 years ago tonight, Berlin…
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Ruined Berlin in Valery Faminsky’s eyes (II)
2019-02-24 18:50:05 UTCSecond part of the pictures taken by Soviet war photographer Valery Faminsky (1914–1993) during the Fall of Nazi Berlin in May 1945. [Major S L Rogatchevsky, a Soviet medical officer, poses next to a propaganda slogan painted on a wall by SS members during the battle that reads: ‘Berlin stays…
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Ruined Berlin in Valery Faminsky’s eyes
2019-02-17 15:01:00 UTCThese pictures were taken by Soviet war photographer Valery Faminsky (1914–1993) during the Fall of Nazi Berlin in May 1945. This archive was discovered recently in Moscow. He photographed the Red Army’s combat from Ukraine to Berlin. Photographer Arthur Bondar heard that the family of Faminsky was selling the album…