Victory over Nazi Germany (1945)

A Focke-Wulf 189 reconnaissance aircraft in flight.

German paratroopers abandon the plane.

German paratroopers land in the foothills.

Wehrmacht units fight in North Africa in 1942, armored vehicles and motorcyclists move into position.

General Rommel, commander of the Afrika Korps, gives orders to his officers.

Combat operations in North Africa.

A German bomber approaches its target.

A submarine's periscope.

The ship is in the periscope's crosshairs.

The submarine commander retracts the periscope.

View of the submarine's bow as it surfaces.

An explosion on the ship, German submariners fire from the deck gun.

A torpedo is launched from a destroyer.

A burning ship.

The walls of houses are painted with flags bearing swastikas.

City residents wave flags.

Hitler and Mussolini respond to greetings from Berliners from a car while driving through the city in 1937. Hitler and Mussolini's motorcade travels through the streets of Berlin.

A panorama of part of the ruined Berlin in 1945, including the shattered station building.

The dome of the cathedral pierced by shells.

Damaged statues and sculptures on the streets of defeated Berlin.

Weapons and helmets abandoned by surrendering German soldiers (panorama).

Captured German police officers.

A column of German prisoners of war moves along the street.

Graffiti against capitulation on the walls of buildings.

White flags sticking out of the windows of one of the buildings (panorama), alternating with shots of flags with swastikas.

The commander of the Berlin defense, General Weidling, and officers of his staff emerge from an underground bunker and surrender to the Soviet military.

A column of German prisoners of war on a Berlin street.

The faces of German officers and soldiers captured by the Soviets.

General Weidling and his staff officers observe one of the columns of prisoners moving along a Berlin street.

During interrogation, General Weidling points out strongholds of the Berlin defensive system on a map and answers questions.

Soviet officers conduct the identification procedure for Goebbels' remains; the charred bodies of Goebbels and his wife.

The head of Goebbels's corpse.

Panorama of part of the Reich Chancellery courtyard (top).

Panorama of the radio tower (bottom to top).

French people deported to Germany return home.

A cart loaded with belongings.

Soviet tank crews and liberated prisoners greet each other.

Military traffic controller Lidiya Ovcharenko at her post at the Brandenburg Gate.

French people returning home.

Lidiya Ovcharenko gives an interview from her post; Soviet tanks roll through Berlin; two soldiers ride by on a tandem bicycle.

Soviet officers and women soldiers take pictures near the destroyed Reichstag building.

Standard-bearers hold the national flags of the anti-Hitler coalition countries.

Cars at the airfield before the meeting of the Allies.

A landed plane finishes taxiing.

Officers with the flags of the USSR, USA, and Great Britain at the airfield during the ceremonial meeting of the Allies.

Soviet officers meet American and British soldiers at the airfield near the plane.

Soldiers walk along the airfield.

The arrival of the German delegation in Berlin to sign the Act of Unconditional Surrender.

Representatives of the delegation exit the plane, among them Field Marshal Keitel.

Keitel's face.

German soldiers, accompanied by Soviet and Allied officers, walk along the airfield.

Soldiers of the USA, Great Britain, and the USSR walk along the airfield.

A military brass band plays.

Keitel gets into a car.

Faces of German soldiers.

A military parade at the airfield.

Keitel and his entourage study the documents he submitted while sitting in a car.

Soviet troops march across the airfield in a ceremonial parade.

Keitel, sitting in a car, studies the documents.

Soviet and American soldiers walk across the airfield.

The vehicles depart the airfield.

Cars with members of military delegations leave Tempelhof Airfield.

Cars with delegations drive through the ruined neighborhoods of Berlin.

Views of Berlin streets, ruined buildings.

The motorcade enters the Berlin suburb of Karlshorst.

Cars pass through the streets of Karlshorst.

Sentries stand at the entrance to the former officers' mess hall, where the signing of the Act of Unconditional Surrender of Germany took place.

Flags of the anti-Hitler coalition countries hang on the wall.

Representatives of the Allied command head to a reception with Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Keitel and his entourage in a separate room before the signing of the Act of Surrender.

A view of the hall before the signing ceremony of the Act of Surrender of Germany.

Representatives of the Allied armies enter the hall. G.K. Zhukov speaks.

Representatives of the German command proceed to the signing ceremony of the Act of Surrender.

Faces of the Soviet delegation.

Keitel answers Zhukov's question about the terms of surrender.

Keitel and representatives of the German command sit down at the table to sign the Act of Unconditional Surrender of Germany.

Keitel and Admiral von Friedeburg take turns signing.

Zhukov during the signing of the capitulation.

Luftwaffe Colonel General Stumpff signs the Act of Surrender.

Faces of the Soviet military.

Zhukov G.K. signs the act of surrender on behalf of the USSR. Signatures under the Act of Unconditional Surrender of Germany.

Stumpff rises and leaves the hall after signing the capitulation.

Banners with an eagle and swastika thrown to the ground.

Panorama and views of destroyed buildings of Berlin, the ruins of the Reichstag.

Graffiti on the walls of buildings: "Berlin will remain German!" Graffiti written by Soviet soldiers on the walls of the Reichstag.

The red flag flutters over Berlin.