Berlin (1945)

An artillery gun commander attaches a red flag to the shaft while sitting on the gun mount.

A gun commander installs a small flag on the gun shield.

A small flag on the gun shield, a view of a street with a destroyed building.

Soviet soldiers play captured accordions while sitting on the armor of an ISU-152 self-propelled artillery unit after the end of hostilities in Berlin in May 1945. Soldiers and officers dance near a tank to the sound of an accordion.

A view of a destroyed bank building, a T-34 tank stands next to the bank, a panorama of a square with military equipment, soldiers listen to a gramophone.

Soldiers at a gramophone.

Mortar men listen to a gramophone mounted on a wheeled mortar carriage attached to a truck with trophies.

Red Army soldiers and officers listen to a piano performance in a destroyed building.

Soldiers dance in the street near a destroyed building.

An accordion player performs a dance song, a soldier in a leather jacket dances.

Tankers sit on the tank's armor and talk to each other.

Faces of tankers.

A military barber cuts an officer's hair near the ruins of a building.

Tankers shaving.

A soldier shaves his comrade, smears his face with a shaving brush and soap.

Soldiers shaving after the end of the fighting.

A soldier plays the accordion, one of the soldiers nearby is washing himself, another is sewing his collar.

Officers clean their boots.

Cleaning a boot with a brush.

A sergeant adjusts his hair, holding a pocket mirror in his hand.

An anti-tank artillery gun in the street among the rubble of buildings, the crew's soldiers are resting nearby.

Resting artillerymen.

An officer reads a newspaper to the artillerymen, conducts political information.

An officer with a newspaper in his hands.

Faces of soldiers listening to political information.

Machine gunners at a position on one of the streets of Berlin read a newspaper.

The face of one of the machine gunners.

Tankers reading the newspaper "Soviet Fighter".

The newspaper is in the hands of one of the tankers.

An inscription in German on a wall damaged by bullets and shrapnel, a Soviet machine gunner sleeps on the sidewalk under the wall, covered with a raincoat.

Soldiers preparing food in a cauldron over a fire among the ruins of Berlin buildings.

A cook at a field kitchen, a panorama of a street with buildings damaged as a result of the fighting.

Soldiers and officers, standing by a propaganda radio van, listen to a recording of a speech by I.V. Stalin.

The faces of soldiers.

A rally of Soviet servicemen at the Victory Column on Bolshaya Zvezda Square in Berlin.

A panorama of one of the streets of Berlin with partially destroyed buildings.

Soviet officers walk past monuments to Prussian kings and military leaders.

A view of one of the monuments, Soviet soldiers are sitting at the foot of the monument.

A view of the destroyed Reichstag building.

An officer sets up a camera on a tripod in front of the Reichstag.

Officers approach a damaged statue in front of the Reichstag building and examine it.

Soviet officers and soldiers read inscriptions on one of the walls of the Reichstag.

Soldiers and officers talk to each other near the walls of the Reichstag.

Soviet soldiers and officers, together with foreign war correspondents, stand on the square near the Brandenburg Gate among the ruins, a view of the Brandenburg Gate (panorama).

An officer takes photographs.

Tankers pose, standing near a tank.

Soldiers and officers are photographed on one of the streets of Berlin.

Soldiers at the foot of one of the monuments, a view of the monument.

Soldiers sit on the shoulders and heads of statues on the Avenue of Victories.

Soviet soldiers in the back of a moving truck.

A sign above the entrance to the Soviet military commandant's office in the Zehlendorf district of Berlin.

A sign at the entrance to the building of the Soviet military commandant's office in Berlin.

Officers enter the commandant's office, a panorama of part of the building and an intersection.

Soldiers and officers enter a half-destroyed building.

The commandant of Berlin, Colonel General A. V. Gorbatov, inspects the destruction on one of the city streets.

The face of Gorbatov giving orders to his deputies.

The faces of the generals accompanying Gorbatov.

The major general talks to female residents of Berlin.

The face of the major general.

Soviet officers on the streets of Berlin talk to its residents.

One of the officers at the commandant's office explains to Berliners the policy of the Soviet command towards civilians.

The faces of the officer and the Berliners listening to him.

A view of one of Berlin's squares with surviving buildings.

The entrance to the metro on the square.

A woman with a suitcase and bundles exits the metro.

A patrol of the German People's Police on one of Berlin's streets.

Military traffic controller Lidiya Spivak at her post on the square near the Brandenburg Gate regulates traffic and at the same time gives an interview about herself and her combat path (synchronously).

A destroyed German anti-aircraft gun in front of the destroyed Reichstag building in Berlin in May 1945. View of part of the Reichstag building damaged during the assault by Soviet troops.

Statues of knights near the walls of the Reichstag.

A Soviet tanker near a tank.

The faces of officers and soldiers marching in formation along a street in Berlin past the destroyed Reichstag building.

Red Army units on the destroyed streets of Berlin.

A column of captured German soldiers moves along a street in Berlin past a parked tank after the end of fighting in May 1945. Women with white armbands watch the column of German prisoners of war pass by.

Soviet officers watch German prisoners of war pass by on a street in Berlin.

A view of one of the columns of German prisoners of war passing through Berlin.

A burnt-out German military truck on the square near the Brandenburg Gate in May 1945. A view of the Brandenburg Gate, damaged during the storming of Berlin.

A panorama of the square with Soviet military equipment parked on it.

A destroyed German anti-aircraft gun in front of the destroyed Reichstag building in Berlin in May 1945. A view of part of the Reichstag building, damaged as a result of the storming by Soviet troops.

Soviet soldiers and officers dance on the square in front of the Reichstag in Berlin to the accompaniment of a military brass band.

Faces of Soviet officers in Berlin during a ceremonial parade after the end of hostilities in May 1945. Tankers and infantrymen, sitting on the armor of a tank standing near the Victory Column, perform songs accompanied by an accordion, Lieutenant Goncharov delivers a short speech in honor of the capture of Berlin (synchronously).

Soviet soldiers drink wine with Berlin girls and women on one of the city streets.

The face of one of the German girls.

Soviet soldiers drink wine with Berlin girls and women on one of the city streets.

Faces of Berlin women talking with Soviet soldiers.