Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 Ian Buruma Penguin Press, 400 pages, $35 World War II Berlin had its share of fanatical Nazis, ...

As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...

Ian Buruma was drawn to wartime Berlin because his father, a Dutchman was pressed into factory work there from 1943 to 1945 ...

Haunting photographs document the scene in the bunker beneath Berlin where Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married -- and where they died.

In the spring of 1945, as Soviet forces surrounded the German capital, the war in Berlin became a desperate struggle for survival rather than a coordinated defense. This episode follows the experience ...

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 ...

Major General Alexey Sidnev who headed the Berlin sector reported a rise in US troops’ crimes against German citizens in his November 9, 1945, memo MOSCOW, May 23. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security ...

On May 8, 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced on radio that Nazi Germany’s forces had surrendered. "This is a solemn but glorious hour," said Truman. "General Eisenhower informs me that the ...

THE ROAD from the Third Reich to modern Germany began in a field of rubble. The second world war had left behind enough of it to form a mountain 4,000 metres high, if it were piled up on the Nazi ...