The collapse of Nazi Germany (1945)

An eagle on a pedestal.

A sculpture of an eagle thrown to the ground.

Destroyed buildings in a German city on Adolf Hitler Square in 1945. Surrendering German soldiers run with their hands raised.

German soldiers surrendering to Soviet troops climb out of breaches in walls and basements with their hands raised.

Faces of German prisoners of war.

A stunned German artilleryman sits by an overturned gun, his head in his hands.

A crying member of the Hitler Youth, captured.

Burning barricades against the backdrop of the Brandenburg Gate.

A panorama of the destroyed train station and the adjacent quarter of Berlin.

A baby stroller abandoned in the street.

Residents of one of the houses emerge from the basement after the end of street fighting.

An elderly woman, deprived of her home, walks down the street.

Destroyed buildings in Berlin.

A view of one of the staircases on the first floor of the Reichstag.

A view of the destroyed Reichstag building.

A truck drives along a road through the ruins of houses (panorama, from above).

The ruins of Berlin.