My grandfather’s letter ended with “we’ll be in the Reichstag tomorrow”—he was badly wounded hours later. The final assault wasn’t about the building, which had been gutted for years. It was about…
The assault on the Reichstag wasn’t about the building itself anymore. By April 1945, the German Parliament it once housed had been dissolved for years. But for the Red Army, that battered structure on the Platz der Republik embodied the rise of the Third Reich—and its destruction would mark the final fall. The 150th Rifle … Read more