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You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me, Caroline Wyatt.

In May 1945, the capital of Hitler's thousand-year Reich lay in ruins.

The final apocalyptic weeks that ended the Second World War left Berlin a shadow of its former

self. The sheer weight of Allied bombs and Soviet artillery during the battle for Berlin left almost half the city's flats and houses severely damaged or destroyed.

Mountains of rubble greeted the occupying Soviet forces. A million or so Berliners were homeless.

Some of Germany's first post-war feature films were known as rubble films,

set in those eerie streets, lined with the wreckage of people's homes.

Something had to be done quickly before winter set in. An 18-year-old

girl called Helga St. Felden was one of many women called on that May to report to the

Soviet authorities in the city. Helga is now 92, but her

memories of that day remain vivid.

There was a female Russian officer there and she told me to report to a park in

Berlin known as Teerga' in the following day. So I did. There were about 40 other women there. They divided us up into two groups and told us that

we were to clear the park of weapons and ammunition and we saw soon enough what a terrible mess it was. German soldiers had dumped a lot of stuff

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