The Collapse and Division of Nazi Germany (1941-1945)

An American military bugler sounds a signal.

The ceremony of lowering the American flag on the parade ground in front of a German barracks.

The installation of an American plaque on the gate at the entrance to the territory of a former German military unit.

A Soviet sentry at the barrier greets passing officers.

A column of American military trucks passes a house with a slogan in honor of the Red Army on the wall.

The movement of an American military column on the autobahn (top).

Slogans in honor of the Red Army and Stalin on the walls of German houses, in German.

A Soviet officer rides over a face on horseback.

Soviet soldiers ride in a wagon through an intersection.

Portraits of Lenin and Stalin in the window of one of the houses.

A cart with Soviet soldiers passes.

A unit of the Red Army marches along the autobahn.

Map of Germany showing cities around Leipzig (animation).

Landscapes of Germany, photographs of castles.

The building of the University of Jena.

Sculptures decorating the building.

A memorial plaque in honor of Karl Marx, a former student at the University of Jena.

A photograph of the monument to Goethe and Schiller in Weimar.

Photographs of cities and industrial enterprises in Germany.

A leaflet in German from the early 1930s.

Photographs of destroyed buildings.

Photographs of NSDAP events in the 1920s with the participation of Hitler and Goebbels.

Newsreel: stormtroopers raising their arms in the Nazi salute during one of the rallies.

Hitler at one of the rallies.

Fireworks at night.

German troops fighting on the Eastern Front.

Destroyed Soviet tanks on the outskirts of the city.

Panorama of a part of the burning Stalingrad.

A Red Army unit marches along a street in Stalingrad in January 1943. American troops disembarking from ships onto the piers.

An American military convoy moving.

British infantry attacking the enemy in North Africa, the body of a German tanker.

The bodies of German soldiers.

A meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Allied Forces.

Roosevelt and Churchill answer questions from reporters while sitting in chairs on the lawn during the Casablanca Conference in January 1943. Churchill and Roosevelt surrounded by members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Casablanca Conference.

The faces of Roosevelt and Churchill.

Photograph of I.V. Stalin.

Map of Germany with different regions highlighted (animation).

An American admiral reads a prayer on the deck of the battleship Prince of Wales during a meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941, before the signing of the Atlantic Charter.

The sailors stand with bare heads.

Churchill and Roosevelt, sitting in chairs surrounded by military personnel, sing a church hymn along with everyone else.

American and British military personnel on the deck of the battleship.

American Marines descend into a lifeboat from the side of the ship.

American troops landing on the coast during the fighting in the Pacific Ocean.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy during the offensive operations of 1943-1944. Officers observe the progress of the fighting from a command and observation post.

Views of the battlefield, tanks and infantry go on the attack.

Officers at the command post, a windmill is hit.

The building of the Soviet embassy in Tehran.

Voroshilov K.E. talks with British military men and diplomats at the entrance.

Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill sit on chairs at the entrance to the Soviet embassy during the Tehran Conference in 1943, Molotov and Eden leave the building.

Churchill's face.

The faces of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill (panorama).

Map of Germany with Prussia, Saxony, northwest Germany, Essen and the Sudetenland highlighted (animation).

Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin in Tehran at the Soviet embassy (panorama), here are also Molotov, Eden, Harriman.

Map of the division of German territories between the allies (cartoon).