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Illustrations

^{1. Hitler Youth during the fighting in Lauban in Silesia, 30 March.}

^{2. Part of the Grossdeutschland Corps being inspected in an East Prussian forest before the Soviet onslaught of 14 January.}

^{3. Volkssturm captured in Insterburg, East Prussia, 22 January.}

^{4. Berliners after a heavy air raid.}

^{5. A ‘trek’ of German refugees from Silesia fleeing before the Red Army.}

^{6. Red Army troops march into an East Prussian town, January.}

^{7. Soviet mechanized troops enter the East Prussian town of Mühlhausen}.

^{8. Red Army troops occupy Tilsit.}

^{9. A Soviet self-propelled assault gun breaks into Danzig, 23 March.}

^{10. A Hitler Youth at a Volkssturm parade taken by Goebbels.}

^{11. Two German soldiers in the defence of the besieged Silesian capital, Breslau.}

^{12. SS Panzergrenadiers before a counter-attack in southern Pomerania.}

^{13. Goebbels decorates a Hitler Youth after the recapture of Lauban, 9 March.}

^{14. German women and children trying to escape westwards by rail.}

^{15. Famished refugees collecting beechnuts in a wood near Potsdam.}

^{16. Eva Braun after the wedding of SS Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein to her sister Gretl, Berchtesgaden, June 1944.}

^{17. Red Army doctors care for Auschwitz survivors.}

^{18–19. A German engineer after committing suicide with his family before the arrival of the Red Army.}

^{20. A German soldier hanged on the orders of General Schörner, whose motto was ‘Strength through fear’. The placard reads, ‘Whoever fights can die. Whoever betrays his fatherland must die! We had to die!’}

^{21. Hitler Youth tank-hunting squad with panzerfausts clipped to their bicycles.}

^{22. Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, who seldom touched a gun yet dreamed of being a military leader.}

^{23. Marshal Stalin and Winston Churchill at Yalta.}

^{24. A T-34 of Marshal Zhukov’s 1st Belorussian Front crosses the Oder.}

^{25. Soviet sappers bridging the Oder to prepare the assault on Berlin.}

^{26. Red Army soldiers retrieving an anti-tank gun on the waterlogged Oder flood plain.}

2^{7. Soviet women released from forced labour near Berlin by the Red Army.}

^{28. An improvised graveyard in the ruins of Berlin.}

^{29. Hitler caresses one of his youngest defenders, watched by Artur Axmann, head of the Hitler Youth.}

^{30–33. The Red Army fighting street by street to capture the ‘lair of the fascist beast’.}

^{34. Across the Moltke bridge to attack ‘Himmler’s House’ — the Ministry of the Interior — then the Reichstag.}

^{35. Soviet assault gun firing down a Berlin street.}

^{36. A riddled Volkswagen by the Reich Chancellery.}

^{37. Forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front sent to crush the Ninth Army in pine forests south of Berlin.}

^{38. German soldiers surrendering to the Red Army in Berlin.}

^{39. Soviet mechanized troops having a wash in a Berlin street.}

^{40. Cooking in the ruins.}

^{41. Red Army meets US Army: Colonel Ivanov proposes a toast, while Major General Robert C. Macon of the 83rd Infantry Division listens.}

^{42. German civilians escaping the Red Army cross the ruined rail bridge over the Elbe to American territory.}

^{43. The end of the battle for Hans-Georg Henke, a teenage conscript.}

^{44. A wounded Soviet soldier tended by a female medical assistant.}

^{45. General Stumpff, Field Marshal Keitel and Admiral von Friedeburg arrive at Karlshorst to sign the final surrender, 9 May.}

^{46. A Red Army soldier tries to seize a Berliner’s bicycle.}

^{47. Marshal Zhukov takes the victory parade on the horse which had thrown Stalin.}

^{48. Zhukov watched by General K. F. Telegin, head of the political department, and General Ivan Serov, the NKVD chief.}

^{49. Visiting the battleground inside the Reichstag.}

Endpapers

German prisoners of war being marched past the Brandenburg Gate on their way to captivity.

PHOTOGRAPHIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

AKG London: 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 17, 22, 24, 26, 28, 34, 37, 40, 42

Alexander Ustinov/Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin: 27

Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin: 16, 21, 39, 43

Bundesarchiv Bild, Koblenz: 2 (146/85/22/20), 47 (183/K0907/310)

Chronos, Berlin: 18, 19, 36

Hilmar Pabel/Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin: 15

Hulton Getty: 46

Imperial War Museum, London: 10 (FLM 3345), 29 (FLM 3351), 30 (FLM 3349), 31 (FLM 3348), 32 (FLM 3346), 33 (FLM 3350)

Jürgen Stumpff/Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin: 45

National Archives and Records Administration, Maryland: 20 (111-SC-205221), 41 (111-SC-205367), 49 (306-NT-885-C2)

PK-Benno Wundshammer/Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin: 1

Private Collection/Novosti/Bridgeman Art Library: 23, 25

Ullstein Bild, Berlin: 4, 5, 11, 12, 14, 38, 44

Victor Tiomin: Endpapers, 35

Every effort has been made to contact all copyright holders. The publishers will be glad to make good in future editions any errors or omissions brought to their attention.