‘We had to do this’: Berlin museum to drop ‘Russian’ from name

Museum on site where Nazis agreed to surrender in 1945 will be renamed Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

A Berlin museum dedicated to German-Russian relations on the site where the Nazis agreed to unconditionally surrender in 1945 is to drop the word Russian" from its name before anniversary events to mark the end of the second world war in Europe.

With tensions already high in the lead-up to the 77th anniversary on 8 and 9 May of Nazi Germany signing the surrender agreement, the German-Russian museum's director, Jorg Morre, said he would be renaming it Museum Berlin-Karlshorst.