In defeated Berlin (1945)

Berlin residents read the order of the head of the Soviet garrison of Berlin, posted on a poster column.

The text of the order is in Russian and German.

A view of the wall of a burning building, next to it - city residents shoveling rubble from the sidewalk.

Berlin residents dismantling barricades and rubble on the streets of the city.

Clearing the roadway of broken bricks.

People carry surviving bricks.

Girls throw flowers under the treads of tanks heading to the Eastern Front in 1941. German tanks drive a ceremonial march along the streets of Berlin, Berliners welcome the tankers.

The face of a man.

Berliners greet the troops passing through the streets from their balconies, throwing flowers.

A column of tanks goes down a street in Berlin.

Berliners raise their hands in a Nazi salute during a rally, Hitler stands on a platform.

A view of one of the Nazi rallies (above).

Berlin residents in May 1945 reach out for bread distributed by Soviet soldiers, distribution of bread to Berliners.

Panorama of a queue for food on a street in Berlin (above), Germans crowd around a Soviet field kitchen.

Distribution of food to Berlin residents.

Soviet tanks on one of the city streets during street fighting.

A machine gunner fires.

Street fighting in Berlin.

Airplanes in a hangar at the Tempelhof airfield.

Soviet aircraft landing at the airfield.

Göring G. inspects a line of Luftwaffe pilots during a parade at the Tempelhof airfield in the late 1930s - early 1940s.

Göring presents awards to the pilots.

Street fighting in Berlin in April-May 1945. View of the wall of a burning building.

Night fighting in Berlin.

Artillery fires at the center of Berlin.

Soviet soldiers rush to the Reichstag building.

The red flag is raised over the Reichstag.

Soviet soldiers tie the flagpole to a beam.

The red flag raised over the Reichstag.

Red Army soldiers congratulate each other on their victory.

A Soviet soldier feeds German children from a mess tin.

Soviet soldiers and officers fire a gun salute at the red flag raised over the Reichstag.

Panorama of the destroyed area of the Berlin railway station on May 2, 1945. The broken dome of the historic building.

Sculptures damaged in the fighting.

View of the lion sculpture.

View of destroyed houses on a Berlin street.

Weapons abandoned by surrendering German soldiers.

Panorama of the destroyed area of the railway station in Berlin on May 2, 1945. The broken dome of the historic building.

Sculptures damaged as a result of the fighting.

View of the lion sculpture.

View of destroyed houses on a Berlin street.

Weapons abandoned by surrendering German soldiers.

Surrendering German soldiers.

A column of German prisoners of war walks along a street in Berlin (top).

Surviving inscriptions on the walls of houses about the impossibility of capitulation.

White flags hung from balconies and from the windows of buildings.

Nazi flags with swastikas hung from the windows of buildings in Berlin in the 1930s.

White flags of surrender in Berlin in 1945. The last commander of the defense of Berlin, General of Artillery G. Weidling and the officers of his staff leave the basement of the building and surrender.

Captured German soldiers march under escort along a street in Berlin, faces of surrendered German officers and generals.

A column of German prisoners of war marches past their generals and officers.

Captured Vice-Admiral Voss identifies the burnt body of Goebbels in the presence of Soviet officers.

Head of the burnt body of Goebbels.

Panorama of the courtyard of the Propaganda Ministry, littered with broken furniture and scattered documents (above).

General Weidling gives evidence during interrogation to representatives of the Soviet command (simultaneously, in German).

Berliners queue at a collection point for Wehrmacht items during the Soviet offensive on Berlin in March 1945. Berliners hand over warm clothing and metal items.

Volkssturm recruits receive uniforms.

Berliners extract whole bricks from the rubble.

Bricks are transported in baby carriages.

Workers push a cart with bricks along the street.

Clearing wrecked tram cars from the streets.

Berliners clear rubble and remove construction waste from the streets.

Soviet armored vehicles move toward Berlin.

Soviet tanks and infantry fight on the streets of Berlin in April 1945. A wounded man is evacuated on a stretcher.

Street fighting in Berlin, Soviet soldiers run across streets and piles of broken bricks.

A woman runs along the street, escaping from shelling.

A view of one of the destroyed streets.

Identification of Goebbels' body.

A photograph of part of Goebbels's corpse.

A photograph of the corpses of Goebbels's children and wife.

Photographs of Hitler's destroyed bunker and the site of his destruction.

A Soviet tank moves along a city street, with columns of captured German soldiers moving towards it from both sides.

A panorama of a destroyed Berlin block with the burning Reichstag building (top).

Women and children come out of a basement after the end of hostilities.

Berliners run across the sidewalks during a break in the battle, one of the women falls.

Men pump water from a pump, with women standing around with buckets.

A queue for drinking water.

Women carry water in buckets.

Berliners cut up a dead horse for meat.

Berliners stand in line for a barrel of water, collecting water in various containers.

Views of the destroyed streets of Berlin in May 1945. Views of the destroyed blocks and buildings of Berlin (panorama, top).

Panoramas and views of destroyed streets of Berlin in May-June 1945. A poster with a quote from Hitler in German and English, nailed to a tree trunk in the American sector of Berlin, an American soldier walks past.

Views and panoramas of destroyed streets and buildings of Berlin, people on the streets, masons laying bricks during the restoration of one of the houses.

Broken tram cars among the ruins.

View of the square and the Brandenburg Gate.

Portrait of Stalin near a dilapidated building in Berlin.

Portrait of Stalin at one of the intersections of Berlin, decorated with flags.

Panorama of destroyed buildings.

View of one of the damaged buildings.

Soviet soldiers near the building.

Entrance to one of the surviving Berlin cabarets, the USSR flag above the entrance.

A cabaret dancer performs in the hall in front of visitors.

American soldiers at one of the tables, the dancer's legs.

Visitors at the cabaret tables.

A dance duet performing a dance in pseudo-Russian costumes.

Soviet soldiers among visitors of the cabaret.

Performance of an acrobatic dancer, a woman at one of the tables.

The artist performing an acrobatic trick.

The face of a British soldier.

Cabaret patrons dancing in the hall.

Allied army officers at a cabaret table.

Dancing patrons.

Faces of women sitting at a table.

A Soviet officer among the dancers.

View of the destroyed cathedral building.

Destruction in various places of one of the historical buildings of Berlin.

Visitors at the tables of an outdoor cafe in West Berlin.

An artist paints a cityscape on a destroyed street of Berlin.

A damaged German artillery gun near the destroyed cathedral.

Gaps in the walls of the cathedral.

Girls in elegant summer dresses and hats walk along the street of Berlin.

Faces of girls.

Women and girls on the streets of Berlin in the summer of 1945. Street trade in things in Berlin, Soviet soldiers among the buyers.

An American soldier examines a camera.

British officers buy binoculars.

Employees of the People's Police lead a detainee.

Traffic on the streets of West Berlin, police cordon.

People loading into the back of trailers.

Berliners on the beach.

Girls and women on the beach talking to officers of the Allied armies.

People at the tables of a summer cafe in the park.

Women dancing with the military.

An Alpine orchestra playing, people at the tables of a cafe in the park.

A boy in the park.

A waiter putting mugs of beer on a table of an outdoor cafe.

British officers at the tables of a cafe, women dancing with each other.

Views of one of the half-ruined cathedrals of Berlin.

Views of the destroyed industrial enterprises of the city.

Views of the destroyed railway station in Potsdam.

British and American soldiers on one of the streets of Berlin during a walk.