The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag (photographed by Yevgeny Khaldei)
The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War, or the German–Soviet War, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union and Pol
Semyon Timoshenko and Georgy Zhukov in 1940
German soldiers in a Panzer III tank; Kalmyk steppe north of Stalingrad, September 1942
German infantry in Russia, June 1943
The South Western Front (Ukrainian) on 22 June 1941