By 19 April, the remnants of the 9th Division along with what remained of the rest of the LVI Panzer Corps were within the Berlin U-Bahn outer defensive ring. During the attempted breakout on the night of 1/2 May a small group of the 9th Division stormed the tower of Spandau "Rathaus" (Town Hall) from which Soviet machine-gunners were decimating Germans attempting to break out of Berlin over the Havel using the "Charlottenbrücke" ('Charlotten Bridge'). By the end of 2 May the 9th Parachute Division had ceased to exist.