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What Happened to Berlin in 1945?
After the Second World War, 90% of Berlin's city center was in ruins. Streets were choked with 70 million cubic meters of rubble,. skeletal refugees ate horse cadavers and grass. Clocks were changed to Moscow times. And its survivors were put to work dismantling the Reich. The whole German rocket industry, for example, was loaded onto a 30-wagon train.