On this day: the Reichstag in Ruins

This photograph shows the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany in ruins on the 3rd of June, 1945. While the building was not used for the German Parliament during Nazi rule, it was used for propaganda meetings, and for military purposes during the Second World War.

The building suffered heavy damage from Allied bombings, and was considered a prize for the Red Army because of its symbolic significance.

From the collection of the Imperial War Museum.

On this day: Two Rulers in Berlin

King Christian X of Denmark and the German Emperor Wilhelm II during a visit to Berlin in 1913.

On this day: the world’s first trolleybus was premiered

The Electromote, the forerunner of the modern trolleybus, invented by Dr Ernst Werner von Siemens, had its debut in Berlin on the 29^th of April, 1882.

This model was used until the 13^th of June.

 

Twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

I wasn’t all that old, but even I remember the significance of that day.

The first picture is of people standing on the wall in the days before the wall fell.

The second picture is from the day after, the 10^th of November. People walk through Checkpoint Charlie.

 

 

 

Berlin July, 1945.

Berlin July, 1945.

A Red Army truck carries troops down a street lined with ruined buildings, rubble and crowds of civilians.

Damaged buildings and a bridge.