Berlin Launches Commemorations For WW2 End 80th Anniversary

BERLIN, GERMANY - MAY 2: A visitor looks at a photograph that shows a Soviet Red Army soldier walking past a dead German soldier of the Waffen SS in central Berlin in April, 1945, at an outdoor exhibit of photographs that shows Germany and Berlin in the the final days of World War II on May 2, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. Soviet forces, including Belarusian, Ukrainian and Polish units, advanced on Berlin and took the city in intense fighting in April of 1945. Berlin has launched commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the defeat of Nazi Germany ahead of May 8, the day Nazi Germany capitulated. (Footage by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)