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...Reichs Chancellery, can be used again. A sign on a brick pile says: "These bricks are the property of the city of Berlin. Persons taking them away will be punished." The bullet-clipped trees of the Tiergarten will grow again. The statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I on the Schloss-Platz has its eagles scattered about, but the old man rides as arrogantly as ever...
...Braun, may have died; the ruins of the Propaganda Ministry, Foreign Office, Kroll Opera House and almost every other notable Berlin edifice. The stench of death rose too from corpses still rotting under debris, from the corpse-clogged Liitzow Canal, from hasty, shallow graves dug in every park and Platz...
...Dream. By night big Russian searchlights focused their rays down the battle-broken streets into the wide Alexander Platz, where Soviet shells clipped at the Gestapo headquarters and its hundreds of fanatics. Other beams poked into the last little fortress of scorched chestnut trees that had been the cool, fresh Tiergarten...
...smell of sweating men, of dank nests burned out by flamethrowers. Out of the subway's stench emerged boys in grey-green and hobnailed boots. These were among the last-the Hitlerjugend. Some were drunk and some reeled from weariness, some sobbed and some hiccupped. One more Platz in the last long mile to the Wilhelmstrasse had been won, and one more Red banner flapped over a scene of dead bodies and discarded swastika armbands...
Into that Platz, then into others, and finally into the vast wreckage of Unter den Linden came tanks and guns. Katusha rockets screeched over the Brandenburger Tor. Then, against a background of flames, the Red banner of victory was unfurled over the gutted Reichstag building. But, even after the ten-day battle was won, Germans died hard...