The storming of Berlin (1945.04)

Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov at the command post at the telephone.

Berlin residents exit the subway after the air raid alarm ended.

Civilian population of Berlin is being evacuated, people board buses and cars.

A view of a Berlin street from a car window, abandoned tram cars on the tracks, people walking down the street with their belongings.

A woman leaves a grocery store.

Remains of bread in a bakery window.

Food distribution by rationing.

Housewives carry vegetables in nets.

An officer, standing in a car, gives instructions to his subordinates.

Goering, Hitler, and Doenitz during a meeting with the military.

A map of Berlin with borders and defensive lines marked against a background of photographs of destruction on Berlin streets.

Berlin residents and members of the Hitler Youth dig anti-tank ditches.

Fortifications under construction.

The face of an excavator driver.

An excavator bucket.

Volkssturm soldiers install anti-tank obstacles.

Construction of defensive fortifications on the streets of Berlin using wrecked tram cars and stones.

Berliners pass bricks to each other in a chain.

Men push a cart loaded with bricks.

Transporting bricks for the construction of defensive fortifications using improvised means.

Photographs of defensive fortifications and permanent firing positions on the streets of Berlin.

Soviet artillery shells Berlin.

A building is hit.

Red Army commanders coordinate the actions of their units.

Soviet armored vehicles enter a Berlin suburb.

Soviet infantry fights its way through the suburbs of Berlin, interspersed with photographs.

Street fighting in Berlin.

The advance of Soviet troops through the city streets.

Evacuation of the wounded.

Map of the gradual occupation of Berlin districts by Soviet troops (animation against the background of newsreel footage of street fighting).

A woman runs through a destroyed district.

Photographs of deserters being executed by the SS. People hide from shelling in entryways and doorways of buildings.

Refugees flee neighborhoods engulfed in fighting.

A woman runs along the sidewalk and falls.

A Soviet flamethrower crew changes position during street fighting, artillery fires on the streets of Berlin.

Self-propelled artillery units (SPGs) move.

Street fighting, Berliners fleeing shelling, fleeing the combat zone.

Artillery fires directly, infantry attacks the enemy through rubble, interspersed with photographs of Berlin's defenders.

A map of Berlin showing neighborhoods occupied by Soviet troops (animation against a background of newsreel footage of street fighting).

A Soviet bomber takes off on a combat mission.

Goering holds a meeting.

German fighters take off from an airfield.

Air battles between German fighters and Allied bombers in the skies over Germany.

American bombers in flight.

Photographs of anti-aircraft towers in Berlin and the daily life of German soldiers between air raids.

Photographs of air raids in Berlin, firefighters, and everyday life in Berlin in April 1945. American bombers in flight.

Opening a bomb bay, dropping bombs.

Photographs of Berlin residents in air raid shelters.

View of the area during the bombing (top).

Photographs of Berlin firefighters at work, people fleeing destroyed neighborhoods, victims of Allied bombing, interspersed with shots of the bombs being dropped.

Firefighters extinguish burning rubble and buildings.

Photographs of Berliners volunteering to help the firefighters.

People carrying things out of a dilapidated building.

Destruction of the Berlin Zoo, dead animals.

Removing beds from a destroyed hospital.

Faces of nurses.

Photograph of a dead patient.

Hospital workers move beds with seriously ill patients to a surviving building.

Destruction of Berlin housing.

Exterior and interior views of a destroyed church.

Photograph of newlyweds leaving a destroyed church after their wedding.

Photographs of chalk graffiti on the walls about lost relatives.

Destroyed neighborhoods of Berlin.

Destroyed tram cars.

A panorama of the destruction in a square.

A church reduced to rubble.

A sapper defuses an unexploded bomb.

The bomb explodes on the spot.

Soldiers dig through a rubble of bricks.

A woman removes shards of glass from the shattered window of a shoe store.

Shopkeepers board up broken windows and gaps in walls.

A handwritten sign.

Berliners on the streets.