Archive photo of the day
ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAYSoviet war memorial, 1956
Stars and Stripes
March 17, 2020
Gene Bane ©Stars and StripesEast Berlin, October, 1956: A visitor to East Berlin's "Garden of Remembrance" photographs one of the twin red granite Soviet flags and bronze statues of Red Army soldiers that overlook the burial place of more than 2,000 casualties of the World War II battle for the German capital. The stylized flags were built from stone taken from the ruins of Hitler's chancellery.
RELATED MATERIAL: Stars and Stripes' 1956 story about the "Garden of Remembrance."