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mid-September 1941, when he’d gripped the side of this same wagon, feeling relentless nausea and the noon heat and hearing the grasshoppers whirring as he gagged out the poison that had welled in his gut.
seeing the ghosts of relationships past,
still believe in grace, don’t you?” “Adeline, with what you
He said praying was where you talk to God. And meditation was where you listen.”
As March turned to April 1945, the brutal cold that had gripped all of Europe gave way to climbing
The Soviets finally attacked Berlin on April 16, 1945.
More than eighty thousand Red Army soldiers would die in the next ten days, wresting Berlin from Nazi control.
Hitler committed suicide on April 30.
Eighty-one thousand Soviets, one hundred thousand German soldiers, and one hundred and twenty-five thousand civilians had died in the Battle of Berlin, street by devastated road and building by rubble and wreckage.