the passions - l'm in love with a german film star and hans albers

Currently my favourite record, which was playing a lot in the car on our return from Manchester Airport / Hamburg on Sunday.
The Passions - l'm in love with a German film star. We were wondering if it was about Hans Albers, who used to be (and l guess still is) a huge German movie and singing star, who was from Hamburg and is now buried there.
But it's not.

Here's The Passions



And here's Hans Albers - On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight



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raising the flag on the reichstag, 1945

This iconic photograph of a Russian flag being raised over the Reichstag in Berlin was taken by Yevgeny Khaldei on May 2nd 1945.  If you look closely, it may be different from the ones that are normally seen, as the soldier at the bottom had one of his (what look like) two watches airbrushed out, as it was thought it looked as though he could have been looting. There's also controversy over which soldiers were used, and smoke was also added to the picture. War eh? You can't trust the governments, and shouldn't take the word of anyone as 100% accurate. Great photograph though.
Here's the Reichstag now, and in 1945.

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