The Last Days of Nazi Germany (1945)

An instructor demonstrates to Volkssturm fighters how to prepare a Faustpatrone for combat readiness.

Faces of male Volkssturm fighters.

An instructor stands on a pile of bricks and fires a Faustpatrone.

Volkssturm fighters duck at the sound of the shot.

A Faustpatrone charge hits a brick wall.

Part of the process of loading a Faustpatrone.

Faces of female Volkssturm fighters.

A Volkssturm fighter hits a target with a Faustpatrone.

An instructor teaches a woman how to fire a Faustpatrone.

A woman fires a Faustpatrone.

A Faustpatrone hits a brick wall.

On April 22, 1945, Hitler reviews the Hitler Youth members who distinguished themselves in the battles near Berlin.

Hitler shakes hands with the young men standing in formation, pats them on the shoulders, Hitler's face.

Members of the Hitler Youth talk about their participation in military operations, faces of decorated members of the Hitler Youth.

Badges for destroyed tanks on the sleeves of the uniforms of members of the Hitler Youth.

Commanders of the Wehrmacht engineering and sapper units receive tasks to clear areas of Berlin from unexploded aerial bombs.

Sapper officers and their subordinates leave the headquarters building.

Residents of one of the Berlin houses leave the entrance, leaving the danger zone.

A sign warning of danger.

A sapper officer defuses an unexploded aerial bomb in the ruins.

Residents of the block behind the cordon are waiting for the end of the demining and the opportunity to return to their apartments.

A sapper officer climbs into a hole in the asphalt, examines the bomb located there.

Detonation of an unexploded ordnance at the site of discovery.