ASIN: B00T5HOS3Y
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 61
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the fighting by Berlin residents and Soviet soldiers*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“On the walls of the houses we saw Goebbels' appeals, hurriedly scrawled in white paint: 'Every German will defend his capital. We shall stop the Red hordes at the walls of our Berlin.' Just try and stop them! Steel pillboxes, barricades, mines, traps, suicide squads with grenades clutched in their hands—all are swept aside before the tidal wave.Drizzling rain began to fall. Near Bisdorf I saw batteries preparing to open fire. 'What are the targets?' I asked the battery commander. 'Centre of Berlin, Spree bridges, and the northern and Stettin railway stations,' he answered. Then came the tremendous words of command: 'Open fire on the capital of the Fascist Germany.'I noted the time. It was exactly 8:30 a.m. on ...
