- 1940 25 Aug The RAF bombs Berlin for the first time, in retaliation for a raid on London two nights earlier.
- 1944 25 Aug Paris is liberated intact after German general Dietrich von Cholitz disobeys Hitler's order to destroy it.
- 1997 25 Aug Former East German leader Egon Krenz is convicted of instigating a shoot-to-kill policy for defectors.
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