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Berlin from the Air

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Berlin from the Air

Time & Life/Getty

The battered Schöneberg section of Berlin. Time & Life states that 350 Allied air strikes took place on Berlin between 1940 and 1945. Time & Life photo-journalist William Vandivert stated, "(we) found almost every famous building [in Berlin] a shambles. In the center of town GIs could walk for blocks and see no living thing, hear nothing but the stillness of death, smell nothing but the stench of death." Vandivert was the first Western journalist to see Berlin and The Bunker...

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4/8/2012

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