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Entangled histories

6 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · DEU LEFT · RUS RIGHT

1. 1941-1945

   The Great Patriotic War

   Nazi Germany's invasion of 22 June 1941 begins the war's deadliest theater; after the siege of Leningrad and the decisive victory at Stalingrad, Soviet forces reach Berlin in 1945 at a cost of roughly 27 million Soviet dead.

   War & Rupture · from the Russia chronicle · The Soviet Union · REFS 3 — Battle of Stalingrad, The Eastern Front: The German War against the Soviet Union, World War II casualties of the Soviet Union

2. 1941–1945

   The Holocaust

   Nazi Germany carried out the systematic, state-organised murder of some six million European Jews, alongside the killing of Roma, disabled people, Soviet prisoners and other victims.

   Catastrophe · from the Germany chronicle · Weimar, the Third Reich and the Second World War · REFS 1 — The Holocaust and World War II: Key Dates

3. 9 April – 2 August 1945

   Königsberg taken and assigned to the USSR

   The Red Army captured the East Prussian capital Königsberg on 9 April 1945, and at Potsdam the Allies agreed in principle to the ultimate transfer of the city and the area adjacent to it to the Soviet Union.

   War & Rupture · from the Russia chronicle · The Soviet Union · REFS 2 — Protocol of the Proceedings of the Berlin (Potsdam) Conference, 1 August 1945, Battle of Königsberg

4. 1946

   Königsberg becomes Kaliningrad

   The city was renamed Kaliningrad in honour of the Bolshevik leader Mikhail Kalinin; its German population was expelled and Soviet settlers repopulated the ruined city.

   Peoples & Migration · from the Russia chronicle · The Soviet Union · REFS 1 — Kaliningrad

5. 24 Jun 1948 – 12 May 1949

   The Berlin Blockade and Airlift

   Berlin, divided into four sectors but located far inside the Soviet zone, was cut off when Soviet forces blockaded rail, road and water access to its western sectors; the United States and Britain flew in food and fuel, at the height one plane landing every 45 seconds at Tempelhof, until the blockade was lifted on 12 May 1949. West Berlin remained an enclave entirely surrounded by East Germany until 1990.

   Politics & Power · from the Germany chronicle · Division, the Federal Republic and Reunification · REFS 2 — The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949, West Berlin

6. 23 May 1949

   Founding of the two German states

   The Basic Law established the Federal Republic of Germany in the west on 23 May 1949; the German Democratic Republic was founded in the Soviet zone on 7 October 1949, formalising the country's division.

   Politics & Power · from the Germany chronicle · Division, the Federal Republic and Reunification · REFS 1 — Germany