Great Patriotic War (1945)

Soviet tanks drive along the road.

Planes in the air.

Soviet plane in the sky.

Soviet tanks drive through a Polish city, residents greet them.

Sign "Here it is, damned Germany".

Fire in a German city, a tank drives by.

Soviet cavalry gallops.

A traffic controller at the sign "120 Berlin".

Cars drive along the road.

Soviet plane in the air.

Dropping bombs from a bomber.

Various military equipment, driving through cities.

Planes in the air.

Terrain filmed from an airplane.

Road sign "Frankfurt 8 km".

General plan of the city.

Field Marshal B. Montgomery at the observation post.

An Allied tank passes by.

Allied troops enter the German city.

Advancement of English and American troops across Germany.

Girls on the street of the city.

Soviet plane in the sky.

The plane lands at a Soviet airfield.

Representatives of the Soviet command pass by: G.K. Zhukov, K.F. Telegin and others.

The factory chimneys are smoking.

Posters say "There is metal for the front", "The front needs it - we will do it".

Shell production, women are working.

Aircraft assembly shop.

Tank assembly at the factory.

Transfer of tanks to the Soviet army.

Sending tanks from the factory to the front.

A train with tanks passes by.

A stoker throws coal into the firebox of a locomotive.

A train with military equipment passes by.

Military Council of the 1st Belorussian Front.

Zhukov G.K. and Telegin K.F. are sitting.

Marshal I.S. Konev, commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front, passes by, accompanied by military personnel.

Marshal Rokossovsky K.K. at headquarters.

Meeting of the military council of the 2nd Belorussian Front.

Soviet headquarters.

Officers around a model of the "Berlin operation".

Tankers examine a map.

Refueling tanks, refuellers.

Vehicles with fuel drive through the forest.

Many planes at a Soviet airfield (shot from above).

Tanks with soldiers drive through the forest.

A tank stops.

Soldiers listen to an officer.

A hand with a pencil moves along the map.

A political worker speaks to Red Army soldiers.

Soviet soldiers are standing.

16.04.1945: Soviet artillery fires.

Katyushas fire.

Marshal Zhukov at the command post.

Tanks with the inscription "To Berlin" move through the forest.

A soldier shines a searchlight.

A tank drives by (shot from the cabin).

Soldiers run.

04.1945: Soldiers are running.

Tanks are driving by.

Artillery guns are firing.

Soviet aircraft are in the sky.

Zhukov, Telegin and others are at the observation post looking at the sky.

Soviet aircraft are dropping bombs.

Explosions on the ground.

The command post is under the net.

Zhukov is looking through binoculars.

04.1945: Tanks drive by, soldiers run.

Planes in the sky drop bombs.

A burning plane falls.

Command post under a net.

General plan of the offensive on the Seelow Heights.

German tanks.

Soviet tanks drive by.

A Soviet tank passes through the barrier.

The Germans throw grenades, fire machine guns.

Pilot I. Kozhedub in the plane.

Air battle.

A damaged German plane falls.

A Soviet plane flies.

Command post.

An officer commands: Fire, artillery guns are firing.

Explosions.

A soldier is talking on the phone at the command post.

Aviation General S.A. Krasovsky is reading a teletype message at headquarters.

Soviet planes are flying, dropping bombs.

Bombs - large.

Soviet soldiers are crossing on rafts.

Artillery fire.

Three soldiers are dragging a machine gun.

04.1945: Soviet soldiers rush into attack.

Building a bridge over the Neisse River.

A tank drives across the bridge.

Tanks and aircraft advance.

04.1945: A camouflaged tank passes by.

Tanks and aircraft on the offensive.

Pokryshkin at the command post.

Road sign: Berlin-Breslau.

Soviet fighters in the air.

Pokryshkin on the phone at the command post.

Air battle.

A damaged aircraft falls.

A tank drives along the road (shot from a tank)

German military leaders surrender.

Captured German soldiers pass by.

White flags in the windows of houses in Berlin.

Faces of captured German soldiers and officers.

A Soviet tank passes by, prisoners on both sides (shot from the tank).

Flags of the USSR, Great Britain and the USA. Conference of the Allies. G.K. Zhukov speaks (synchronously).

Representatives of the Allied command at the table.

The German delegation enters the hall.

Signing of the act of surrender of Germany: W. Keitel signs the act; Zhukov G.K. signs the act, British Air Marshal A. Tedder signs the act.

Act with signatures.

A Soviet soldier places a flag on a cannon.

Distribution of bread to Berlin residents.

Germans read the order of the Soviet command.

A Soviet soldier plays the accordion.

A soldier washes.

A soldier sews.

Soldiers clean their shoes, shave.

Soldiers take pictures on the streets of Berlin.

A Soviet officer walks through Berlin, people pick him up.

Berlin residents walk with flags.

A Soviet soldier plays the accordion.

Soldiers and officers clap.

A soldier dances.

9.05: Shukhov Tower on Shabolovka.

The Kremlin.

St.

Basil's Cathedral.

Loudspeaker.

A crowd of people listens to Stalin's address (Stalin's voice in the background).

Faces of Soviet people.

The people rejoice on Red Square.

Joyful people kiss and hug.

Fireworks over Red Square in Moscow.

Soldiers are traveling from the front by train.

Soldiers are looking out the carriage window.

The train is approaching the platform.

People meeting with flowers.

Soldiers meeting their families.

A girl kisses a soldier.

Marshal K.K. Rokossovsky on a black horse on Red Square.

Marshal G.K. Zhukov rides out on a white horse.

People watch.

Stalin on the tribune.

Regiments pass by.

Rokossovsky, I.S. Konev on the tribune of the Mausoleum.

They carry fascist banners and throw them down.

The barrel of a gun rises.

The commander commands: Fire!

Artillery guns fire.

Explosions.

Amphibians drive by.

Amphibians cross a river.

Attack by German planes.

Repulse of the attack by air defense forces.

Forcing the river by Soviet troops.

Infantry comes ashore.

Commander.

Construction of a crossing by engineering troops.

Soviet tanks await the crossing.

Commanders talk.

Soviet planes drop bombs on Berlin.

Soviet soldiers on the streets of Berlin.

Artillery guns fire.

A building collapses.

Shootings in the city.

A Berliner cuts a piece of meat from a dead horse.

Soviet tanks in Berlin.

Soviet soldiers drag a machine gun up the stairs to the floor of the Reich Chancellery.

Signalmen.

An officer dictates a radiogram to a signalman.

A Soviet military commander speaks on the telephone, makes notes on a map with a pencil.

Polish troops in Berlin.

Artillery guns fire, buildings collapse.

Fires in Berlin.

Shooting.

A soldier at a machine gun.

An elderly German woman runs down the street and falls to the ground.

A first aid station, bandaging Soviet soldiers, the wounded.

A field kitchen, distributing food to Berliners.

An elderly German woman eats.

Soviet soldiers in a building.

German soldiers equip a Faustpatrone.

Fighting on the streets of Berlin.

Soviet soldiers are running.

A dead man lies.

German soldiers surrender.

Brandenburg Gate.

Artillerymen lay a shell with the inscription "To the Reichstag".

A soldier carries a wounded man.

Soviet soldiers with a banner run along the street of Berlin.

The Victory Banner over the Reichstag.

Berlin - taken from an airplane.

Soviet planes in the sky.

Poster: Meeting of the West and the East.

English soldiers with the British flag pass by.

Lieutenant General V.V. Rusakov and the American General Emil Reinhardt on the Elbe.

Soldiers of the American and English armies pass by.

A photographer takes a picture.

Soviet soldier A. Silvashko and American soldier W. Robertson shake hands.

Soviet tanks drive by.

Fighting on the approaches to Berlin.

Artillerymen load a gun.

Artillery guns fire.

Soviet soldiers enter Berlin.

Artillery guns fire.

Houses are burning.

A soldier looks out the window of a burning house.

A Soviet soldier takes a German soldier prisoner.

A German soldier cries.