The Lost Evidence: The Battle Of Berlin (1/5)

On 16th April 1945, 9000 Russian guns unleashed a devastating bombardment on German troops manning the outer defences of Berlin. More than a million Red Army soldiers had assembled to smash their way through to the heart of the city. Time had run out for Adolf Hitlers Third Reich.

However, the battle-hardened veterans of the Red Army faced an enemy fighting with a ferocity born of desperation. In the streets of the city, their tank formations become easy prey for fanatical tank hunting teams of SS men and boys of the Hitler Youth. Furthermore, at the heart of the defence effort was Hitler himself. The beleaguered Fuhrer doggedly refused to admit defeat, demanding endless suicidal counterattacks.

We see aerial reconnaissance photographs taken during the course of the battle. The majority of these aerial images have not been seen for sixty years. They have been combined with cutting edge computer graphics to create three dimensional models of Hitlers embattled capital city. For the first time, it is possible to follow the dramatic and bloody progress of the savage battle which brought the war in Europe to an end.

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[alf513]

russia held off the full might of german army. the allies could not have won the war without the russian

[MrJamesharvey22]

Seven million shells that's one hell of a lot of artillery shells! 

[51Commandos]

@alf513 and the Russians wouldn't have won a one on one battle with the germans, they did it together

[local1114]

that gun at 7:43, really looked like a mp5 for a second

[The88Razor88]

@alf513 and russian could not win without his allies cuz they are the one supplying russian cuz russian industry power is not soo great during those times

[kidri0t]

@alf513 You mean the Russian weather!

[topperheartramada]

@mjmikelson maybe they used them to wipe their ass when they had to go to the toilet.

[topperheartramada]

@my80splaylist as if stalin cared about the deaths. the man personally murdered more soviet people that the germans killed.

[topperheartramada]

the russians were 'sitting ducks'? man, that expression is used in every episode of this series. i reckon ducks must be terrified of sitting down. if i were a duck i wouldn't dare sit down under any circumstances.

[my80splaylist]

Stalin may have thought he outsmarted Eisenhower, but seriously, the Red Army casualties were horrendous...I think it just goes to show the continued strategic missteps that Stalin made during the war (if I were him, from a humanistic standpoint, I would have thought Russia paid enough a price in blood to let the US slog through it).

[Ag3nt0fCha0s]

@MrJamesharvey22

Nah, only about,

OOooohhh....

Say, 7 Million or so?

Am I funny? Did you laugh? Even almost? Ha! Lol.

[BusterXXXL]

@mjmikelson They use a bit of aerial maps in the episode about Casserine Pass and the American fight for Tunis. Very disappointing they don't use any in any of the other episodes