People across Germany were commemorating the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II on Sunday against the backdrop of a heavy police presence due to possible tensions over the war in Ukraine. At the Soviet Memorial in Berlin’s Treptower Park, hundreds of people laid flowers and commemorated the fallen during the morning. According to a police spokesperson, many people also came to the Soviet Memorial in the central Mitte district. Some laid wreaths. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier described the war in Ukraine as an “epochal rupture” that forced Europeans to have painful insights….