Iain MacGregor

Berliners were punished twice – by Hitler and by the Allies

With its large Jewish population, Berlin was never pro-fascist – which may have influenced Hitler to remodel the city which the Allies then flattened

Goebbels’s wrecked Ministry of Propaganda building in Berlin, July 1945. [Getty Images]
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