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Zhukov’s fatal miscalculation: How Berlin’s last defenders slowed the Red Army

In April 1945, Marshal Georgy Zhukov expected a swift breakthrough on the road to Berlin. Instead, his opening assault ran ...
Associated Press

Berlin still bears scars 80 years after pivotal battle that sealed the defeat of Nazi Germany

BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival ...
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From Kursk to Berlin: How the Red Army learned to win the war

By 1943, the Red Army had transformed itself through hard lessons learned in disaster. This video explains how Soviet forces mastered defensive depth, attrition warfare, and overwhelming mass to ...
The New York Times

Red Army Faction

As a young lawyer and a Communist revolutionary, he helped start the violent Red Army Faction. Later, he went to prison as a Nazi apologist and Holocaust denier. By Clay Risen Ten people were arrested ...