Destroyed Berlin (1945.07)

A view of Berlin in July 1945 (from above).

Destroyed buildings in Berlin, people passing by.

Volkssturm soldiers released from captivity walk down the street past destroyed buildings with belongings in their hands.

A military traffic controller at an intersection.

Destroyed buildings on a street in Berlin, a sign indicating directions to the city center and Küstrin.

Women and released Volkssturm soldiers walk down the street past the ruins.

Berliners pull carts loaded with belongings.

A nun walks with a teenager.

A light truck pulled by a horse moves along a city street.

A view of the square in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

The national flag of the USSR on a flagpole.

Passing under the Brandenburg Gate, entering the Soviet zone, a portrait of Stalin on the avenue.

A view of one of the city squares, in the center are portraits of Stalin and Soviet military leaders, surrounded by destroyed buildings.

Sculptures of lions and militaristic statues in city squares.

A red flag on the statue of St.

George.

The portico of the Reichstag building, scarred by bullets and shrapnel.

Inscriptions made by Soviet soldiers at the bases of the Reichstag columns.

A collapsed bridge over one of the canals, a view of a ruined neighborhood.

Destroyed residential buildings on the banks of the canal.

Views of the destroyed railway station in Berlin.

Panorama of the building with broken windows and charred window openings.

A window opening shattered by shell fragments with inscriptions in German.

Views of city buildings and neighborhoods destroyed as a result of street fighting.

The frame of the dome remaining from the destroyed building, people walk past.

Women with strollers walk past the destroyed dome, a cyclist rides by.

The frame of the destroyed dome.

A red banner with the slogan of the Communist Party of Germany on the wall of a destroyed factory building.

Views of destroyed neighborhoods and buildings of Berlin, passers-by and cyclists on the streets.

A fountain with a dilapidated sculptural group against the background of a building with empty and charred window openings.

The building of the destroyed aquarium at the Berlin Zoo.

Entrance to the aquarium.

View of part of the destroyed aquarium.

The surviving figured canopy over the entrance to one of the churches.

The surviving building of the cathedral.

The surviving Orthodox Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ (shot from different angles).

The entrance to the cathedral.

The dilapidated building of one of the Lutheran cathedrals; people clear a pile of bricks near the wall of the cathedral.

Women pass bricks and buckets of trash down a chain.

The damaged building of one of the churches; a top-down panorama of a mass grave of Soviet soldiers.

Destroyed buildings in Berlin.

Pedestrians on a street in Berlin.

The destroyed building of the former American embassy.

Destroyed buildings on Unter den Linden.

The entrance sign and the entrance to the U-Bahn station on Unter den Linden.

Motorcyclists and military trucks drive past one of the destroyed buildings.

The damaged roof of one of the buildings.

The interior of a destroyed building.

Refugees returning to a destroyed neighborhood; people walk past piles of broken bricks.

An apartment on the third floor of a building missing one wall.

The destroyed Reichstag building.

A woman climbs the steps of the Reichstag, riddled with bullets and shrapnel.

Graffiti written by Soviet soldiers hang on the Reichstag columns.

A girl carries boards out of the Reichstag.

Women and children carry boards and building materials out of the Reichstag building.

Women and children load boards and wooden beams onto a cart near the Reichstag wall.