However his armies failed in their attempt to capture Berlin and retreated to the west.

Due to the statue atop of it the column was known as 'the tall woman' by Soviet troops who captured Berlin in 1945.

They don't know that it was the Red Army that captured Berlin.

He was to follow the operational plan and get the 82nd ready for an airborne assault to capture Berlin.

Exactly how was Koniev, on the south, prepared to capture Berlin in time?

For months they had been sustained by the conviction that Eisenhower's forces would capture Berlin.

Soviet forces drove into eastern Germany, capturing Berlin in May 1945.

When the Russians captured Berlin, among the loot they got hold of the plates.

But the overriding objective was to capture Berlin.

The savings of these 336,000 people were seized by the Russians in 1945 when they captured Berlin.