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Cold, Wet Rain. In Berlin, a cold, wet wind whipped the stinging rain into red banners planted every 50 feet along Unter den Linden, in the Russian sector. A parade of workers shuffled drearily past while loudspeakers blared. Most of them had to parade whether they liked it or not. "I remember," said one oldtimer, "when we were liable to be fired if we participated. Today you're likely to be fired...
...Berlin, 150,000 leftists, wearing red armbands and red carnations, trudged down Unter den Linden to the Lustgarten. Spark and spontaneity were lacking. "Mensch!" exclaimed a German who remembered May Day parades under Goebbels and Ley. "There is no spirit here-it's a funeral procession...
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...
...millions of Berliners who could not fight, those who did not want to fight now that doom was on the doorstep, milled in panic. They surged to the Ringbahn, fought each other to get on the last trains to anywhere. They massed in the air-raid shelters, choked the Unter-grundbahn platforms and tracks. Stunned, they huddled wherever they could find shelter and waited...
...Unter den Linden, too, the new season brought its collections. Reported Berlin Fashion Writer Gabriele Müller...