



British female servicemen on the platform under the portraits of I. V. Stalin, H. Truman and W. Churchill.
Soviet military traffic controller at the entrance to Potsdam in July 1945. Stalin I. V., H. Truman and British Prime Minister K. Attlee before the start of another session of the conference, Stalin moves his chair, which is in the way of photo reporters.
Participants of one of the sessions of the conference at a round table (top).
Stalin during another session of the conference.
Truman at the table during another session.
Vyshinsky A. Ya., Molotov V. M., Stalin I. V. and members of the Soviet delegation at a round table during another session of the conference (top).
Views of one of the destroyed German factories.
Soviet medical workers lead liberated children out of the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945. A Soviet soldier tears down a Nazi flag.
Panoramas of the ruins of German cities (top).
Photographs of the destruction of German architectural monuments.
Destroyed buildings of churches and cathedrals in Germany.
View of part of the destroyed railway bridge.
Panorama of the destroyed river port (top).
Panorama of part of the destroyed city block (top).
A road sign lying on the broken asphalt.
Views and panorama of the ruins of Berlin.
Tidying up the lawn near the Victory Column in Berlin with a harrow.
Planting trees near the Reichstag building.
Berliners going to work.
A mountain of construction waste.
Destruction of the swastika on the roof of the Reich Chancellery by detonating it.
Berliners with buckets in their hands stand in line at the water pump.
Soviet soldiers hand out bread to Berliners.
Photograph of officers from the Soviet Military Administration.
Text of the appeal of the Soviet Military Administration to the residents of Berlin dated June 10, 1945 in German.
German teenagers burn Nazi party symbols and literature at the stake.
Teenagers throw books and flags with Nazi symbols into a fire.
A worker smashes a bronze bust of Hitler with a sledgehammer.
Two workers smash stone sculptures of Nazi eagles.
Refugees who have lost their homes sit in the street and at the train station.
Faces of women and children.
Germans stand in line at a food station.
Lunch is distributed from a field kitchen.
Manufacturing metal scythes at a factory.
A factory worker demonstrates finished scythes, places them on a rack with finished products.
Plowing the land using horse traction.
Carrying out spring sowing by hand.
A German farmer sows a field.
Views of urban ruins.
Berliners dismantling one of the rubble (panorama, from above).
Manual transportation of stone blocks.
Collapse of walls of emergency buildings using explosions.
A woman carries bricks.
Women work on dismantling rubble, loading construction waste into provided trolleys.
Restoration of industrial plants, masons laying bricks.
View of a restored industrial plant.
Threshed grain pouring out.
Part of the production process in a foundry.
Views of restored streets of Berlin in 1948-1949. Women standing at a shop window.
Sausages and meat products on display.
Potatoes for sale at a market.
Customers at a confectionery shop window.
A price tag indicating the salary levels in West and East Berlin.
People standing waiting to be paid.
An accountant counting money.
German railway workers go on strike.
Clashes between strikers and police.
Detainees are taken away in a police car.
Soviet soldiers pass by.
A sign warning of the exit from the French sector of Berlin.
Signs and checkpoints at the exits from the zones of Berlin controlled by the USSR and the Allies during the Berlin Blockade in 1948-1949. Berliners rummage through a pile of soldiers' helmets and gas masks from the former Wehrmacht.
A view of the Victory Column and the park next to the column.
Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich - statesman and political figure Molotov Vyacheslav Mikhailovich - statesman and political figure
diplomat Vyshinsky Andrey Yanuarievich -- statesman and political figure
lawyer Truman Harry -- American statesman and political figure Attlee Clement Richard -- British statesman and political figure
1945 1948-1949
Berlin West Berlin Germany
Summer Spring