Devastation
Much of the city’s devastation can be seen by images just like the one below. Prior to the street fighting, Berlin was heavily bombed by both the British and the US. The city was ruined, the people were displaced and chaos had truly ensued as a result of Nazi-controlled Germany.

Devastation
Civilians
After the war had ended, civilians struggled. Soviet troops did help some of them by giving them essentials like bread and soup, which you can see below. Berlin was now occupied by the Allied power, and civilians had already began to clear up the city.

Civilians