The final, bloody battle for Berlin, during which 300,000 Red Army soldiers died. The hub of Hitler's war machine, this vast Prussian Garrison city had set the scene in the 1936 Olympics to develop into the Nazi Party's showcase for the 1,000 year Reich. After four years of relentless Allied bombing it was faced with the ultimate test, and finally destroyed, as the remnants of Germany's armies fought to hold back the 'barbarians from the east'.
