In a courtyard of a building that was formerly the Nazi Air Defense Command—run by Hermann Göring, chief architect of the Luftwaffe—Truman watched as soldiers raised the Stars and Stripes up a flagpole. Honors were accorded by an honor guard from the Forty-First Infantry. This flag now flying over Berlin was the same flag that flew atop the White House at the time of Pearl Harbor and on the day the United States declared war on Nazi Germany.
Freedom prevailing
