DER TOTALE KRIEG FÜHRT ZUM TOTALEN SIEG!

DER TOTALE KRIEG FÜHRT ZUM TOTALEN SIEG!

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Berlin children used the shell of this fuel drop tank to make an improvised kayak. In spite of terrible conditions, the photographs are ample evidence that life in Berlin went on. (via)

6 hours ago · 24 notes

tags → #history #post-war #post-war europe #berlin #german history #black and white

A refugee returning home to Berlin stands before the graves of her family. (via)

8 hours ago · 12 notes

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Children play in the ruins of a bombed church in Berlin, 1945. (via)Otto Donath.

22 hours ago · 30 notes

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Desperate Berliners cut meat from a dead horse in the days after the war’s end. (via)

1 day ago · 4 notes

tags → #history #post-war #post-war europe #berlin #german history #animals in war #horses in history

A Soviet soldier uses a German officer’s dagger to cut bread given to German women in post-war Berlin. (via)

1 day ago · 14 notes

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Marlene Dietrich’s return to Berlin in May, 1960 - fifteen years after the end of the war. (via)

2 days ago · 23 notes

tags → #history #post-war #marlene dietrich #vintage #black and white #life

A couple walks down Dircksenstr., in the center of Berlin. The burning building behind them was nothing special in the chaotic days at the end of the war. (via)

2 days ago · 45 notes

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A soldier lies fallen on the streets of Berlin - pinned to his uniform is an Iron Cross. (via)

2 days ago · 9 notes

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A woman waters her balcony garden, a matter of survival in the starving city of Berlin; summer of 1945. (via)

2 days ago · 14 notes

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2 days ago · 531 notes

tags → #history #world war ii #post-war #post-war europe #berlin #german history #kodachrome #colour photography