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This decided Ashkhenin, a 20-year-old draftee from a village in the Urals. A moment after the officer left, he scampered across the street into the densely shrubbed Tiergarten, and hid out there, hugging the ground, while a Russian party tried to find him. Then he ripped off his epaulettes, tossed away his Tommy gun and ran toward the first lights he could see, the kliegs of No Way Back...
...trees once stood. More than anything I have seen here, this is a symbol of Berlin's victory. Despite kidnapings, despite the Communist propaganda barrage, despite intimidation, Berlin's people have remained calm and unruffled. An old man carefully tending his tiny potato patch in the Tiergarten pointed to one of the huge, blasted air raid shelters. He said: 'During the war every bunker in Berlin had the words painted near its entrance: Ruhe bewahren, nicht drängen!-keep quiet, don't push. Those words we shall never forget. They have served us well during...
...German capital and its people last week came the most violent and perhaps the most fateful days since Red armies three years ago blasted their way across the Tiergarten, littered with uniformed corpses. After watching the Berlin scene last week, TIME'S Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled...
...Even Hitler didn't get crowds like this," I heard a grey little man in shirtsleeves murmur to his friend. Indeed, it was a crowd worthy of this highest German superlative. The 300,000 blanketed the whole rubble-strewn area before the Reichstag, choked every path through the Tiergarten, stood in neat, tight ranks between rows of planted cabbages in the little garden plots. A hot sun beat on the crowd; the air was heavy with sweat and whirls of dust from the sandy earth and the odor of cheap tobacco. A seven-year-old girl whimpered against...
...Recently, the British tried to destroy an anti-aircraft bunker in Berlin's Tiergarten by setting off a 50,000-lb. charge of TNT (TIME, Sept. 8). The bunker did not budge...