Berlin in World War II
In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power. NSDAP rule diminished Berlin's Jewish community from 160,000 (one-third of all Jews in the country) to about 80,000 as a result of emigration between 1933 and 1939. After Kristallnacht in 1938, thousands of the city's Jews were imprisoned in the nearby Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Starting in early 1943, many were shipped to death camps, such as Auschwitz. Berlin is the most heavily bombed city in history. During World War II, large parts of Berlin were destroyed during 1943-1945 Allied air raids and the 1945 Battle of Berlin. The Allies dropped 67,607 tons of bombs on the city, destroying 6,427 acres of the built up area. Around 125,000 civilians were killed. After the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, Berlin received large numbers of refugees from the Eastern provinces. The victorious powers divided the city into four sectors, analogous to the occupation zones into which Germany was divided. The sectors of the Western Allies (the United States, the United Kingdom and France) formed West Berlin, while the Soviet sector formed East Berlin.
Source: Wikiepedia
Source: Wikiepedia
Books
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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Blood & Banquets: A Berlin Social Diary
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Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler
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What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933
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Berlin, 1675-1945: The rise and fall of a metropolis : a panoramic view
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Novels (Fiction)
Leaving Berlin