Berlin Marks VE Day With Gatherings Across The City

BERLIN, GERMANY - MAY 08: Police prepares security barriers at Soviet War Memorial Tiergarten as people arrive to commemorate the 1945 liberation of Germany from fascism and the end of World War II on VE Day on May 08, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. Gatherings, including at Soviet war memorials, are taking place across Berlin today and tomorrow with a large police presence on hand to prevent confrontations between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian groups. A Berlin court denied applications to ban the showing of Ukrainian and Russian flags at the memorial sites. Berlin has a number of Soviet war memorials that commemorate the tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers, among them Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, who died in the final weeks of World War II during the Battle of Berlin. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)