Germany’s capitulation document – or as Bob Hope put it, “The paper so nice, they signed it twice…” – was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945, and again the next day in Berlin, at the insistence of the USSR that Germany bring the war to an end in the same city from which itContinueContinue reading “Lunch With the Nazis: Soviet Report on Events After Germany’s Unconditional Surrender: 11 May 1945”
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6 May 1945: Moscow Learns Sparse Details of the Suicides of Hitler and Goebbels
Within hours of his suicide on 30 April 1945, Soviet authorities were already learning of his death through members of a new German government, hoping to negotiate a surrender to Marshal Zhukov. Two days later, the head of that new German government, Joseph Goebbels, had also taken his life, along with that of his wifeContinueContinue reading “6 May 1945: Moscow Learns Sparse Details of the Suicides of Hitler and Goebbels”
“Communists” Come Out of the Woodwork as the Red Army Advances on Berlin, April 1945
As the Red Army approached the outskirts of Berlin, local Soviet spies on the ground reported on the surprising number of individuals springing forward to proclaim their membership in the Communist Party. The author of a 30 April 1945 Top Secret report, recently declassified by the Russian SVR, clearly had no wool pulled over hisContinueContinue reading ““Communists” Come Out of the Woodwork as the Red Army Advances on Berlin, April 1945″
Hitler’s 1933 Aspiration to Join Ranks With England to Colonize the Soviet Union
After Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933, the security situation for the USSR changed significantly. The National Socialist regime was able to put into practice its political and ideological slogans that were openly hostile to the Soviet Union. Information obtained by foreign intelligence regarding the long-term intentions of the Hitler governmentContinueContinue reading “Hitler’s 1933 Aspiration to Join Ranks With England to Colonize the Soviet Union”
Translating History 