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No. 443
ID: e93eb3
Mid-april '45 already was quite warm and pleasant, so snow in the end of april quite unlikely. Since the red army advanced on Reichstag and the Brandenburg gate from the west (Tiergarten park), and this image depicts the gate from the east (Pariser Platz), the main risk for the soldier depicted would have been to be shot in the back from down Unter den Linden boulevard. Otherwise the square was still enclosed, apart from the gate and the end of the boulevard, by partially destroyed buildings. At that point probably the only seriously contended area likely were the New Chancellory at about 7 to 8 o'clock and 600 meters (shielded from the square by the ruin of a bank and the former academy of arts, then the seat of Albert Speer), and parts of the old ministerial quarter east of that (some of which still exists, including Goebbel's ministry of propaganda).
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