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	Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The highest elevations in Berlin are the Teufelsberg in the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and the Müggelberge in the borough of Treptow-Köpenick.
		Berlin is the national capital of the Federal Republic of Germany and is the seat of the President of Germany, whose official residence is Schloss Bellevue.
		Berlin is home to Hertha BSC Berlin, a football team in the Bundesliga, and the basketball team ALBA Berlin (also known as the "Berlin Albatrosses"), which won the national championships every year from 1997 to 2003.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Berlin.htm (6513 words)

	Battle of Berlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Soviet tank spearhead was on the Havel river to the east of Berlin and another had at one point penetrated the inner defensive ring of Berlin.
		To the west was the XX Infantry Division, to the north the IX Parachute Division, to the north-east Panzer Division Müncheberg, XI SS Panzergrenadier Division Nordland were to the south-east, (east of Tempelhof Airport) and XVIII Panzergrenadier Division, the reserve, was in the central district.
		In the battle for the city the Soviets lost about 2,000 armoured vehicles, in good part due to the effective shoulder-firing recoilless gun known as the Panzerfaust, mass numbers of which were supplied to German civilians, though countermeasures such as armor and wire skirts were being deployed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Berlin (3454 words)

	12. The Battle of Germany, 1945. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		In 1944 the Allied air offensive was sharply intensified and German air strength declined decisively.
		During the last four months of fighting, Allied air squadrons roamed Germany almost at will, destroying communications, obliterating plants and stores, and wrecking many of the remaining German aircraft on the ground, where they lay helpless for lack of fuel and repairs.
		The military collapse of Germany was consummated in four months by simultaneous drives launched by Soviet armies in the east and south and by American, French, and British imperial forces in the west.
	www.bartleby.com /67/2621 (756 words)

	The city of Berlin
		The city of Berlin is built on a plain, so it is as flat as a pancake except for a mound where the pile of cleared rubble was covered over with grass.
		Berlin was originally the capital of the kingdom of Prussia and then became the capital of a united imperial Germany when the Second Reich was proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles on January 18, 1871 following Prussia's victory over France.
		Berlin was the residence of Karl Marx, the son and grandson of Jewish rabbis, the man who introduced Communism to the world when he published his Communist Manifesto in 1848.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /EasternGermany/Berlin (2674 words)

	Bombing of Berlin in World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was bombed by the RAF Bomber Command between 1940 and 1945, and by the USAAF Eighth Air Force between 1942 and 1945, as part of the Allied campaign of strategic bombing of Germany.
		The Battle of Berlin was launched by Harris in November 1943, as a concerted air attack on the German capital.
		The failure of the Battle of Berlin meant that Bomber Command left Berlin alone for most of 1944, when its resources were largely diverted to targets in western Germany, France and Belgium in support of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944, although regular nuisance raids by the both the RAF and USAAF continued.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Berlin_(air) (3481 words)

	Berlin
		Berlin was the capital of the kingdom of Prussia and then, from 1871, of a unified Germany.
		Although Air Marshall Arthur Harris, head of Bomber Command, came under heavy pressure from Winston Churchill, he refused to carry out attacks on Berlin throughout 1942 because of the high risk of heavy casualties.
		When complete photographic cover of Berlin was obtained at the end of the war, it was found that 6340 acres of the main built-up areas had been destroyed.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWberlin.htm (603 words)

	Wartime Issue 25: The battle of Berlin
		Berlin was unequivocally the cultural, economic and political centre of the Third Reich.
		The battle of Berlin was waged in two parts: the first, between late August and early September 1943, and the second – and most intense – between mid-November 1943 and late-March 1944.
		Air Vice Marshal Bennett, looking back in 1945, observed, “The net result was a state of mind amongst crews which automatically reduced the chances of success to negligible proportions.
	www.awm.gov.au /wartime/25/article.asp (2437 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| Interview With World War II German Officer Siegfried Knappe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Berlin was defended by the LVI Panzer Corps under General Karl Weidling.
		When it fell back into Berlin, it lost contact with one division, so the last battle was fought with four divisions, as well as those forces already in the city--a total of 60,000 men and 50 to 60 tanks.
		At the time of the battle, he was a major and the operations officer of the LVI Panzer Corps.
	www.historynet.com /wwii/blbattleberlin (1016 words)

	Berlin air raid shelters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Parts of the tower were designated for use during air raids by the civilian population and as hospital.
		In 1935-6 the Old Reichs Chancellery on the Willhemstrasse was extended at the rear and a "Diplomat's Hall" was constructed with an air raid shelter underneath, principly for Hilter and his entourage.
		When the Berlin Wall was bult in 1961 the bunker mound was in the security zone on the eastern side of the wall.
	www.geocities.com /lupinpooter/berlin.htm (1342 words)

	Military History Online - D-Day June 6, 1944
		Indeed losses from enemy air attack were so substantial that it is unlikely that their earlier release would have made any significant difference.
		Most of the terrain over which the battle of the coming weeks would be fought was well-suited to such a strategy.
		Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, commanded the AEAF (Allied Expeditionary Air Force) refused to carry out the drop of 1st Airborne on the grounds that the operation would be too dangerous for his aircrews.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/dday/foothold.aspx (2524 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Capturing the heart of Hitler's Reich
		The battle for Berlin had been fierce - tens of thousands were killed on both sides before the guns fell silent.
		After the fall of Berlin, the war was not over - some units of the German army continued fighting for nearly another week, and some deserters were even shot a day after the unconditional surrender was signed.
		It was the importance of Berlin as a symbol of German militarism that made West Germany choose the relatively small and little known university town of Bonn as its capital after the war.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/4505119.stm (533 words)

	Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Berlin was protected by concentrated anti-aircraft defenses, including three huge concrete flak towers.
		The Reichstag had not been restored by the Nazis since the 1933 fire that gutted the interior, but the Soviets considered it a prime target in the battle for Berlin, and artillery and tank fire took their toll on the building.
		Continue to Part 2 of the Berlin page, featuring photos of the location of Hitler's bunker, some of the burial sites of the Hitler remains (also Goebbels and Bormann), and other area sites.
	www.thirdreichruins.com /berlin.htm (1562 words)

	Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin Bibilography
		The Last Battle is the compelling account of this final battle, a story of brutal extremes, of stunning military triumph alongside the stark conditions that the civilians of Berlin experienced in the face of the Allied assault.
		Beginning with the battle of Kursk in July 1943, Carrell traverses the vast expanse of the Russian War, from the siege of Leningrad and the fierce battles of the northern front, to the fourth battle of Kharkov, and the evacuation of the Crimea, a withdrawal forbidden by Hitler.
		PANZER BATTLES is a vivid account of the major campaigns of that war, especially the legendary desert battles fought by Rommel, who found the desert to be the perfect terrain in which to wage almost purely theoretical armored warfare with large-scale tank formations.
	www.battlefront.com /products/cmbb/biblio.html (4945 words)

	Battlefield 1942 Updated Preview - PC News at GameSpot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In this preview, we're examining the battles of Kharkov in the Ukraine, Berlin in Germany, Ardennes in Belgium, and Guadalcanal in the South Pacific.
		Berlin has been devastated by months of fighting and air raids, but the building husks make for great sniper nests.
		Historically, many people died in the Battle of Berlin, including thousands of civilians, and at its maximum capacity of players, this Battlefield 1942 map does a good job of suggesting the violence of that battle.
	www.gamespot.com /pc/action/battlefield1942/preview_2879003.html (1185 words)

	European Air War, 1939-1945
		Giulio Douhet, an evangelist of air power and later Mussolini’s air force advisor, postulated that the bomber would be the main weapon of the next war.
		American Air Force Colonel William “Billy” Mitchell sank German war prize battleships from the air, despite the objections of the Navy.
		Also, the was widespread public opinion in England and elsewhere that the Germans had brought the possibility of air attack on themselves, that the raids on Guernica, Warsaw, Rotterdam, and London were illegal raids that demanded harsh payback.
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/airwar.htm (2578 words)

	Berlin: The Downfall 1945, by Anthony Beevor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Berlin in the spring of 1945, at least 5,000 of whom are buried in the park.
		Berlin is at once a mausoleum, a city of ghosts, and a vibrant modern metropolis.
		Both Stalingrad and Berlin are battles that have been subjects of a legion books — the events of Hitler’s death, for example, are familiar to us in every detail — but many accounts are heartless compendiums of army groups, tanks and clashes that lack the depth of the human experience.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /040702.html (14946 words)

	Berlin Brats History
		In 1953 in Berlin, teachers, students and school equipment were moved from the former German girls School to the new school building on Hüttenweg the site of the present Thomas A. Roberts School.
		Brigadier General Charles F. Craig, then commanding general, Berlin Command, cut the ribbon September 9, 1953, for the opening of the new school, as a group of 110 school-children and nine faculty members streamed into the new, modern site to begin the school sea- son's scholastic activities.
		The increased number of school age dependents in Berlin made it apparent that a self contained high school was a necessity.
	www.berlinbrats.org /history.htm (2627 words)

	Air Power:The Battle of Britain
		Hawker Hurricanes are probably best known for their outstanding performance during the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940, proving vital to Britain's survival when the Nazi Blitzkrieg seemed unstoppable.
		The Battle of Britain began on July 10,1940, when the Luftwaffe began attacking shipping in the English Channel and limited bombing missions against RAF bases.
		Air bases and factories could be repaired and plane inventory could be replaced.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Air_Power/Battle_of_Britain/AP22.htm (1524 words)

	The Battle for Berlin, 1945
		The fighting was would be fierce; national pride and the desire to gain time for refugees to get to the west led German units to fight bitterly.
		The Battle of Berlin would be the deciding conflict between Nazism and Communism.
		The Battle of Berlin was over, and with it went the Third Reich.
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/berlin.htm (608 words)

	Memorial Details: Sowjetisches Ehrenmal in Treptower Park, Berlin (Soviet War Memorial)
		It was built 1946-1949 to commemorate the 20,000 Soviet soldiers that fell in the battle of Berlin in April-May 1945.
		Some images from the ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the battle of Berlin can be viewed here.
		The grey clouds hanging over Berlin was almost color-matched with the 2711 uneven concrete blocks that constitutes the memorial.
	www.war-memorial.net /mem_det.asp?ID=98 (1315 words)

	Nival Interactive \| Blitzkrieg \| Missions \| 20. The Battle of Berlin
		The Allies were also pushing from the west in an effort to meet up with the Soviets and end the war.
		A multi-pronged attack was planned with offensive strikes along the Oder and Neisse rivers, combined with a direct thrust up the center via the Seelowe Heights.
		The Storming of Berlin eliminated Germany's last large group of forces, bringing about their capitulation, and ending the war in Europe.
	www.nival.com /blitzkrieg/chapters/20 (345 words)

	World War 2 in Berlin. Battle of Berlin 1945.
		These massive structures were built to defend Berlin from air raids.
		Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp at Oranienburg, 35 kilometers north of Berlin.
		Recommended Books World War 2 in Berlin and the Final Days of the Third Reich.
	www.geocities.com /isanders_2000/ww2index.htm (209 words)

	The Battle for Berlin
		Background: Joseph Goebbels book The Battle for Berlin was an account of the beginning of the Nazi Party in Berlin.
		This section describes a battle in a meeting the Nazis had organized in the Wedding district of Berlin, a communist stronghold.
		Usually one is not aware of the stages of a meeting hall battle.
	www.calvin.edu /academic/cas/gpa/berlin.htm (1674 words)

	World War 2 Panorama: Berlin - streets - Landmarks of WWII in Fullscreen 360 QTVR panorama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The most well-known memorial in Berlin is the Kaiser-Wilhelm Memorial Church.
		Hitler´s residence was heavily damaged by air-raids and the battle of Berlin.
		Today, the place where his body was burnt is a parking place for the inhabitants.
	ww2panorama.org /panoramas/berlin-2 (207 words)

	Next, the battle for Baghdad \| csmonitor.com
		From World War II's battle of Berlin to the struggle for Hue in Vietnam, urban combat has proved a brutal, slogging business.
		That is the kind of fighting the Iraqi leadership now seems to be preparing for, as it hunkers down behind entrenched defenses and warns darkly of what will happen to US units in Baghdad's streets.
		The fact that Apaches attacked en masse - a force of 30 or so helicopters - suggests that the US may be switching the emphasis of its air campaign to close air support from the striking of strategic targets.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0326/p01s01-woiq.html (1035 words)

	"In Berlin's Neighborhoods - by Boris Gorbatov - from SovLit.com
		Fierce battle rages in the streets and alleyways, in the air, on the ground, and underground--in the Berlin metro.
		And more than anything, he wants the shooting in Berlin to end quickly and for the victors to issue their orders, informing him of how things will be.
		When the first Soviet military commandants appeared in the conquered regions of Berlin, and the first bright-green declarations of the commandant appeared on the walls and were distributed as leaflets, all of underground Berlin crawled out onto the streets; great crowds of Germans thronged around the declarations.
	www.sovlit.com /war/inberlin.html (1502 words)

	World War 2 Battles
		Major and minor battles are covered in detail, as well as the home front.
		The Battle of Berlin - the remains today.
		All stories from men in battle to service on the home front to poignant recollections of the times are welcomed.
	d.webring.com /hub?ring=worldwar2battles (1170 words)

	General Curtis E. LeMay
		Walter J. Boyne, former director of the National Air and Space Museum in
		Washington, is a retired Air Force Colonel and author.
		Beyond the Wild Blue: A History of the United States Air Force, 1947 -1997.
	www.konnections.com /airlift/clemay.htm (745 words)

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