Bringing History to Life Magazine

26 December 2023

The Russians are about to suffer the bloodiest defeat of their history at the gates of Berlin! These were the words of Adolf Hitler just days before the fall of Berlin. The increasingly disillusioned leader of the Third Reich still clung to the faint hope that the Hitler Youth, fanatical SS soldiers and World War I veterans could keep the Soviet war machine at bay. The reality was very different. Berlin’s defenders were a ragtag army of scared young boys and older men who had never held a gun in their hands, and the fall of Nazi Germany was just weeks away in April 1945. In this issue, ‘The Fall of Berlin’, you’ll be given the full story of the Third Reich’s final collapse as told by the eyewitnesses who saw it happen.