Nazi Germany at the end of World War II (1944-1945)

Hitler A. in the airplane cabin.

The pilot at the controls.

View from the airplane (from above).

The crew's radio operator maintains contact.

Officers in the airplane cabin.

Hitler looks out the window.

Members of the Hitler Youth run out of the gates of the training camp.

Hitler gets out of the plane, greets the officers and party leaders.

Hitler's car on the way to the residence.

Hitler is met at the residence.

Hitler among SS officers and military personnel.

Workers of one of the factories greet Hitler, Hitler gets into the car.

Arrival of one of the Wehrmacht generals at Hitler's headquarters.

Getler talks with the general in the office by the panoramic window.

Hitler's conversation with the military.

Hitler looks at maps of the theater of military operations, listens to explanations from the military.

Plaster sculptures against the background of the radio tower.

Entrance to the telephone exchange building.

The process of connecting subscribers.

Hitler's photograph in the newspaper.

The announcer at the radio station makes notes in the text of the message.

The announcer reads the text of the message into the microphone.

Entrance to a defense plant of the Third Reich.

Young men during a class in a vocational training classroom.

The teacher checks the quality of drawings.

Young people at tables during a drawing class.

Students during classes in various laboratories.

A practical lesson on laying rails in a mine.

Foremen check the quality of work.

A meeting of vocational training foremen, checking drawings.

Presentation of certificates of completion of the school to graduates.

Graduates examine the documents they received.

The ruins of the Monte Cassino monastery, destroyed by Allied air force in 1944. Fragments of surviving architectural decorations among the ruins.

A surviving statue in a niche.

Fragments of a surviving fresco.

Views of the terrain with the ruins of settlements in Italy.

German officers at a stereoscopic telescope during military operations in Italy in 1944, views and panorama of the area under fire.

Loading a German artillery piece.

A gunner at the sight.

Gun fire, shells exploding.

A German sapper passes through rubble, carrying an anti-tank mine.

An American tank is moving.

Faces of the German gun crew.

An American tank is being shelled by an anti-aircraft gun.

Soldiers in a doorway.

Panorama of the area with destroyed American tanks.

A German anti-aircraft gunner smokes during a break in the battle.

German paratroopers are fighting against the Americans in the mountains of Italy.

Shells exploding in the mountains, German snipers in ambush.

German machine gunners and mortar men are firing.

View of a destroyed monastery.

A German machine-gun crew is firing.

The face of a machine gunner.

A German officer examines the outskirts of the monastery in Monte Cassino through binoculars.

Map of Crimea in early 1944. View of a German field airfield in Crimea in January 1944. Faces of pilots.

Clearing snow from aircraft.

The commanders of the various Berlin defence sectors receive instructions at the defence headquarters.

Officers leave the building.

Berlin residents leave their home due to the threat of an explosion.

A sign in front of a restricted area.

A sapper officer defuses an unexploded bomb in the ruins of a house.

Defusing unexploded ordnance in a Berlin neighbourhood.

Residents of the house stand in a safe place awaiting demining.

A sapper descends into a hole in the asphalt and begins defusing the bomb.

An explosion of an unexploded ordnance near a Berlin house.

Faces of Volkssturm members.

An instructor conducts a lesson on handling a Faustpatrone and fires a shot.

Faces of crouching Volkssturm members.

Volkssturm members are trained to fire a Faustpatrone.

Members of the Hitler Youth who distinguished themselves in battle stand in formation awaiting Hitler's arrival in Lauban in March 1945. Hitler inspects a line of young soldiers.

Hitler Youth member Wilgel Hübner and his comrade talk about the battles in Laubahn, faces of Hitler Youth members.

Parade of Volkssturm members in Berlin.

Faces of soldiers reviewing the parade.

Berlin Volkssturm units lined up on the square (top).

Volkssturm oath-taking ceremony, faces of Volkssturm members repeating the oath.

Wehrmacht and Volkssturm units on the square.

Volkssturm members shoulder their weapons after the oath-taking ceremony.

Parade of Berlin garrison and Volkssturm units.

Goebbels greets the passing troops, faces of Volkssturm members marching in formation armed with Faustpatrone and rifles.

Volkssturm units enter the square at the Brandenburg Gate.

Flags with swastikas on flagpoles.

Faces of fans in the stands of a stadium, fragments of a football match.

Members of the Hitler Youth gather and sit around a model of the terrain during a theoretical lesson on tactics.

Faces of the instructor and members of the Hitler Youth.