Amid the ruins of the German capital, a German officer subsists on C rations.

“Nothing is left of Berlin but memories,” a Soviet officer wrote. “I would never have believed that a great city could be reduced to mere rubble. It seems so strange, after four years of gunfire, ow not to hear a single shot around us.”

Photo/Text Source: The book, THE WAR, An Intimate History 1941-1945 by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns

Wartime Letters 1943 – 1945: www.ComesASoldiersWhisper.com