At the center of Berlin, the car turned down the Wilhelmstrasse to the remains of Hitler’s Reich Chancellery. Truman could now see the shattered balcony where the Nazi leader had so often addressed his brainwashed followers. “That’s what happens,” Truman said to Leahy and Byrnes, “when a man overreaches himself. I never saw such destruction. I don’t know whether they learned anything from it or not.”
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