Frankfurt color slides 1959-61 - Photo #27 - Berlin 1959 and Hamburg 1960

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Soviet War Memorial Soviet War Memorial 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.