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Battle for Berlin.The End Of The nazi Empire.Eind april 1945 is de Duitse hoofdstad het laatste strijdtoneel. Nog éénmaal opgezweept door haar leiders wordt de stad tot de laatste man verdedigd tegen het Rode Leger van Generaal Zjoekov. Minstens 300.000 mensen waaronder zelfs kindsoldaten worden zinloos de dood ingejaagd. Adolf Hitler ziet geen uitweg meer en pleegt zelfmoord. Vooral de felste SS-ers ...

Frontier town battered in Hungarian-Czechoslovak battle - 25 reported killed. A gaping shell-hole in a building at Munkacs.

King leads his fleet in battle exercises in the Channel. The cruiser Newcastle - one of the latest type cruisers - at full speed in the english Channel during the exercises.

Princess Royal launches new battle ship at Birkenhead. The Princess Royal launched the new 35000- tonsbattleship Prince of Wales from Cammell Laird's yards at Birkenhead, Cheshire. The second of the new George V type, the battleship will have ten 14-inch guns in quadruple turrets fore and after, and 16 5.5-inch guns . She will be one of the fastest of her class in the world Photo shows: A general view ...

French leave their homes as battle rages for Cherbourg. Frenchmen piled their belongings into carts and wagons and left their homes in Cherbourg to escape bombs and shells as the Nazis resisted U.S. forces. The Nazis surrendered to the Americans, June 27, 1944, three weeks after the first Allied landings on the Normandy beaches.

Red tanks captured in attack on Rebel Front Battle Line. Two of the Communist tanks captured by Fascists, seen giving the Fascist salute to the cameraman, in a village in the Guaderrama Mountains near Segovia, north of Madrid.

Spanish Government destroyer aground in Catalan Bay after Gibraltar sea battle. The Jose Luis Diez aground in Catalan Bay.

The battle for Madrid: Junta's guns bombard the capital. A view of the bombardement of Madrid by the Junta guns, photographed from a point of the Nationalist Front Line, six miles west of the capital.

Belgian refugees await transport to rear of battle area. An elderly Belgian woman and other civilians of La Gleize, near Stavelot, Belgium, await transport after American troops recaptured the town. The troops regained control of Stavelot December 23 (1944) and 4 days later hurled back te Germans from Bastogne.

Italian troops march to front to battle Germans in Italy. Italian soldiers in single file march through a town in Southern Italy on their way to the front to fight side by side with American and British soldiers against the Germans. The Italian scored their first victory against the Germans in a joint attack with American forces on Dec. 16, 1943, on a mountain south of Cassino.