Liberation of Poland (1945)

View of an old building from the window of a destroyed house on the square of one of the Polish cities.

Panorama of the prison building.

General view of the torture chamber.

Type of torture machine.

Towels are hanging on a hanger.

On the stool are rubber gloves and tools for torture.

View of the torture machine with a groove for blood flow.

A drain hole in the floor under the torture machine.

A Polish girl talks to a Soviet soldier.

Photos of dead relatives in the hands of a man.

The faces of people looking at the corpses of relatives tortured in Nazi dungeons.

The corpses are lying on stretchers.

People carry the corpse on a stretcher into the courtyard of the prison.

Weeping women.

The corpses of Poles tortured by the Nazis.

Weeping women.

View of one of the corpses.

A crying woman.

People look at the corpses lying there.

A column of German prisoners is led down the street of one of the Polish cities.

A man runs up to a column of prisoners and begins to beat them, a Soviet escort rides by on horseback.

German prisoners are being chased down a city street, people are trying to beat them.

People run in a crowd behind a column of prisoners, Polish soldiers and fighters of the people's militia push them back.

An activist of the new Polish government distributes leaflets to people.

An elderly man sticks a billboard with a government message on a street stand.

People read the message.

People look out of the open windows of the house, hang out the Polish national flag.

Children in the open window of the house listen to the gramophone, under the window is a Soviet officer.

Women's faces.

Women talk to Soviet soldiers.

The school caretaker opens the school door and rings the bell for recess, and the students run out into the courtyard.

The watchman strikes the bell with a hammer.

Students and teachers go out into the courtyard.

Children have fun and dance in the school yard.

Children dance in the city square.

Nurses provide assistance to a Soviet officer lying on a stretcher.

The nurse finishes the dressing, covers the officer with a jacket.

A nurse bandages the head of a wounded soldier.

A nurse helps a soldier wounded in the leg to walk.

The nurses carry the officer away on a stretcher, the nurses dress the wounded soldier.

Landing the wounded in an ambulance.

A patrol of Polish People's Militia volunteers among the ruins of buildings.

The patrol goes through the ruins.

Demolition of the remains of an emergency building by Soviet sappers.

Sappers at the field phone.

The face of one of the sappers.

The soldier speaks into the phone.

Sappers at the wall of the building.

Detonation of an unexploded shell.

Officers at the field phone.

The officer reports the situation on the phone.

The general at the command and observation post receives the report of a subordinate by phone.

Officers at the stereo tube.

The general watches the fighting through a stereo tube.

Soviet artillery crew loads a heavy gun.

Telephone operators are preparing to transfer data for shooting.

The calculation of the howitzer is firing at the enemy.

The heavy gun fires direct fire.

General view of the approaches to the German stronghold.

The heavy gun fires direct fire through a gap in the concrete fence.

The gunners load the gun.

A battery of howitzers is firing at the enemy.

The heavy gun fires direct fire through a gap in the concrete fence.

Gaps at the target location.

The howitzer crew is firing direct fire.

The gunner opens the bolt of the gun after the shot.

The medical instructor bandages the head of the wounded officer.

The gunners are firing at the enemy with direct fire.

The firing gun.

Smoke at the target site after an artillery barrage.

Soviet planes are flying.

The face of the pilot in the cockpit.

General view of the destroyed buildings (from above).

Attack Soviet attack aircraft "IL-2".

View of the burning German stronghold (top).

Stormtroopers are attacking.

View of a burning locality (from above).

Stormtroopers are attacking.

The heavy gun crew is firing direct fire.

Soviet soldiers prepare to cross the square during a street battle.

The gunners are firing at the enemy.

View of the part of the destroyed fortress taken by the Soviet troops.

Heavy gun in position.

Soviet soldiers eat porridge from a pot and treat porridge to a Polish boy.

The submachine gunner is firing at the enemy.

German tanks were smashed at the fortress wall, and a white flag was fixed on one of the tanks.

View of the part of the fortress destroyed by Soviet artillery.

The red flag is flying.

Types of destroyed fortifications.

Captured German soldiers are being escorted.

Prisoners pass through the fortress wall.

The commandant of the fortress and the officers of his staff are accompanied by Soviet officers on the street of the city.

The commandant is brought to the corpse lying on a stretcher to identify it, the Soviet colonel asks questions.

The commandant and his officers examine the corpse, answer the questions of the Soviet colonel.

The face of the captive commandant of the fortress.

The faces of captured German officers.

Captured German soldiers and officers are led through the streets of the city.

A red banner is flying over one of the destroyed forts of the captured fortress.

Soviet tanks drive down the street of one of the Polish cities.

Road sign for distances to Berlin and Moscow.

The face of the traffic controller standing next to the sign.

A Soviet heavy tank drives down the street of the city.

Soviet planes are flying.

View of part of the Oder River (from above).

Soviet planes are flying.