The
Soviet
War Memorial in West Berlin, 1959. It's still there at edge of the
Tiergarten opening out on the Straße des 17 Juni, about 370 meters west of
the Brandenburg Gate. 2000 Soviet soldiers are buried here. It's also
close to the Reichstag, as can be seen in my own black-and-white photo, left
(in 1959 the Reichstag was still in ruins, second photo). The memorial was
built in 1945 from the rubble of Nazi government buildings including the
Reichskanzlei (Reich Chancellery), in the area that Hitler meant to devote
to Welthauptstadt Germania, which was to be the capital of the world after
the ultimate victory.