Liberation of Prague and the end of the Great Patriotic War (1945)

Rebel residents of Prague on one of the city streets in May 1945. Rebels lead captured Nazi collaborators, tied together.

Faces of armed rebels.

Armed rebels on the streets of Prague.

A truck with soldiers drives down the street.

Women build a barricade from cobblestones.

Construction of a barricade.

View of a street blocked by a barricade.

Panorama of barricades on one of the streets of Prague.

The inscription on the van "Death to all SS men!" The movement of German troops under the command of Field Marshal Schörner towards Prague.

Rebels fight in the streets with German troops that have entered Prague.

Views of Prague streets during the fighting.

Troops of the 1st, 2nd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts make a forced march to Prague.

Residents of Prague welcome the Red Army.

Faces of Prague girls, a cavalry unit of the Red Army marches along one of the streets of Prague.

Units of the Czechoslovak Corps of General Svoboda march along the streets of Prague.

Residents of Prague greet their liberators (panorama).

A Soviet officer talks to residents of Prague.

The face of a Soviet tanker.

Soviet soldiers with Prague children in their arms.

View of one of the city squares with a mass grave of Soviet soldiers.

Residents of Prague lay flowers on the graves.

Mass graves of Soviet soldiers and participants in the Prague Uprising.

An honorable Czechoslovak military guard at one of the graves.

Residents of liberated Prague knock down German signs and plaques from the walls and facades of buildings.

Destruction and painting over of signs in German.

Raising the national flag of Czechoslovakia over the Prague Telegraph building.

German documents are thrown out of the windows of the town hall.

Public burning of documents of the German authorities (top).

People burning a portrait of Hitler.

Panorama of the radio tower in Berlin in May 1945 (bottom to top).

The cloth of the red banner.

Red flags on the sculptural group on the roof of the Reichstag.

Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov G.K., Berlin commandant General Berzarin N.E. and their entourage pass under the Brandenburg Gate.

Zhukov inspects the sites of street battles in Berlin, surviving monuments on the streets of Berlin.

Zhukov and his entourage inspect the territory of the former General Staff of the Wehrmacht.

Eagles with swastikas on the facades of buildings.

Interior views of the Reich Chancellery, destruction in the Reich Chancellery.

Zhukov, Berzarin and their entourage leave the Reich Chancellery building.

Fragments of Nazi symbols in the courtyard of the Reich Chancellery.

Zhukov and his entourage inspect damaged armored cars in the courtyard of the Reich Chancellery.

Sculpture on the Victory Column in Berlin, a red flag on the column.

Zhukov, Berzarin and their entourage inspect the Victory Column.

Soviet officers unfurl and examine captured German flags.

Faces of servicemen of European countries liberated from German captivity, walking along the streets of Berlin.

Soviet soldiers resting on the armor of a tank.

Residents of European countries liberated from concentration camps are returning home.

People are pushing carts with belongings, national flags are above the carts.

Soviet tanks and self-propelled artillery units with soldiers on their armor are driving along the streets of Berlin.

Soldiers and officers greet General V. I. Chuikov, rock him.

Faces of Soviet soldiers and officers applauding their comrade dancing the lezginka (panorama).

A tank officer dances the lezginka.

A tanker plays a captured accordion.

Chief Marshal of Aviation A. A. Novikov and Colonel General S. I. Rudenko at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

Soviet officers and soldiers pose for photographers against the backdrop of the Reichstag.

Graffiti on the walls of Berlin buildings about the inadmissibility of capitulation.

Panorama of the broken columns of the Reichstag.

Graffiti made by Soviet soldiers on the walls and columns of the Reichstag.

A red flag flutters.

A motorcade carrying Field Marshal Keitel to sign the capitulation in Karlhorst, views of Berlin streets that have retained traces of street fighting.

The motorcade moving along the streets of Karlhorst.

The building in which Germany's capitulation was to be signed, sentries at the entrance to the territory.

Flags of the victorious powers on the wall.

Representatives of the Allied Command are sent to see Zhukov G.K. Faces of representatives of the German Air Force and Navy.

Keitel's face (in profile).