09 April 2025, Brandenburg, Seelow: The year 1941 (the war against the Soviet Union began on June 22, 1941) and the sentence in Russian script "You have glorified your motherland" are inscribed at the entrance to the Seelow Heights memorial. Shortly before the end of the Second World War, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died in the Battle of the Seelow Heights to the east of Berlin in the largest battle of the Second World War on German soil. The Red Army encountered fierce resistance from the German Wehrmacht as it advanced towards Berlin. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa

09 April 2025, Brandenburg, Seelow: Soviet army equipment from the Second World War can be seen on the grounds of the Seelow Heights Memorial. Shortly before the end of the Second World War, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died in the Battle of the Seelow Heights to the east of Berlin in the largest battle of the Second World War on German soil. The Red Army encountered fierce resistance from the German Wehrmacht as it advanced towards Berlin. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa

09 April 2025, Brandenburg, Seelow: The larger-than-life bronze sculpture of a Red Army soldier and an insinuated, destroyed gun turret of a German tank are the landmarks of the Seelow Heights memorial. Shortly before the end of the Second World War, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died in the Battle of the Seelow Heights to the east of Berlin in the largest battle of the Second World War on German soil. The Red Army encountered fierce resistance from the German Wehrmacht as it advanced towards Berlin. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa

09 April 2025, Brandenburg, Seelow: Gravestones of Soviet soldiers who died in the Second World War are on the grounds of the Seelow Heights Memorial. Shortly before the end of the Second World War, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died in the Battle of the Seelow Heights to the east of Berlin in the largest battle of the Second World War on German soil. The Red Army encountered fierce resistance from the German Wehrmacht as it advanced towards Berlin. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa

09 April 2025, Brandenburg, Seelow: The larger-than-life bronze sculpture of a Red Army soldier and an insinuated, destroyed gun turret of a German tank are the landmarks of the Seelow Heights memorial. Shortly before the end of the Second World War, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died in the Battle of the Seelow Heights to the east of Berlin in the largest battle of the Second World War on German soil. The Red Army encountered fierce resistance from the German Wehrmacht as it advanced towards Berlin. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa

09 April 2025, Brandenburg, Seelow: A memorial stone with the inscription "Here rest soldiers and officers of the 1st Belorussian Front who fell during the liberation of Seelow on April 18, 1945 and were reburied in this grove of honor in October 1972." can be seen on the grounds of the Seelow Heights Memorial. Shortly before the end of the Second World War, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died in the Battle of the Seelow Heights to the east of Berlin in the largest battle of the Second World War on German soil. The Red Army encountered fierce resistance from the German Wehrmacht as it advanced towards Berlin. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa