Battle of Berlin. The Unknown War №18 (1979)

B. Lancaster speaking (simultaneously in English).

Photographs of Soviet soldiers.

Newsreel: Soviet troops advancing: troops in a populated area, planes flying, bombs falling.

Destroyed German equipment.

A female traffic controller, an arrow-pointer with the inscription "120 - Berlin".

Soviet tanks driving through a German city.

A female traffic controller, an arrow-pointer with the inscription "80 - Berlin".

Cartoon - German troops passing by, military equipment moving.

Cars with German soldiers, trains with guns driving.

German defensive rampart, blown up bridge over the Oder River.

Preparation of Soviet troops for the storming of Berlin - Soviet troops fortify their positions on the eastern bank of the Oder: a train with tanks driving by, barrels of fuel in the forest, soldiers camouflage tanks, prepare shells.

Airfield, plane taxiing.

Marshals Zhukov, Rokossovsky and other military leaders pass by.

Military council.

Colonel General Berzarin and other military leaders.

Cartoon - a map-scheme of military operations of the Soviet army.

Newsreel: Fascist units are standing in the square.

Goebbels is speaking from the podium.

Fascist speakers are speaking in the hall.

Germans from the Volksturm units are receiving grenades.

Fascists are training the militia to handle weapons.

Children in soldiers' uniforms.

Hitler walks around a line of teenage soldiers.

Soviet tanks are moving in the forest, the inscription on the tank is "Forward to Berlin".

The offensive on Berlin - guns are firing, shells are exploding.

Tank battle, a Soviet tank with the inscription "Suvorov" is driving by.

Night attack - "Katyusha" rockets are firing, artillery shelling, tanks are moving, explosions.

Marshal Zhukov at the command post.

Attack of Soviet tanks and infantry on the Seelow Heights.

Soviet planes are dropping bombs.

Map-scheme of the actions of the Soviet fronts.

Marshal Konev and others are passing through the battlefield.

Marshal Konev at the command post.

Soviet tanks are driving by.

Marshal Rokossovsky.

Soldiers load guns, guns fire, explosions.

Soviet armored vehicles cross the Oder.

Fascist planes fly, bombs fall, Soviet anti-aircraft guns fire.

Air battle.

Soviet troops land on the shore.

Soldiers build a crossing, Soviet tanks move across the bridge.

Soviet planes in the air. I. Kozhedub in the cockpit.

Air battle.

Shelling of a German plane.

A German plane crashes and burns.

American planes in the air, bombs fall.

German city.

Allied troops move across the bridge.

Allied troops cross the river, Allied soldiers fight in the streets of a German city (Ruhr?).

Newsreel: The population of Berlin builds barricades on the streets of the city.

Marshal Zhukov with military leaders.

Soviet artillery fires on Berlin.

Airplanes fire, tracer shells hit objects on the ground.

Mortars fire.

The streets of the city are in smoke.

Airplanes fly, explosions.

Germans near a burning house.

Looting in the city - Germans cut off pieces of meat from a dead horse, people rob warehouses, shops.

A German carries the loot.

Artillery shelling of Berlin.

People run down the street.

Fighting in the suburbs of Berlin - flamethrowers fire.

Soviet military leaders near a map.

A Soviet plane lands at the German Tempelhof airfield.

The former commandant of the airfield.

Fighting on the streets of Berlin - soldiers run up the stairs of a house, shoot from windows, set up a gun, throw a sculpture of a knight down the stairs.

A German is pulled out of a hatch.

Burning houses, fleeing Soviet soldiers.

Germans surrender.

Soviet tanks on the streets of Berlin, residents fleeing along a ruined street, Soviet guns firing, a house collapsing, bombs flying.

A German boy in a soldier's uniform is crying.

Photos of German teenage soldiers, photos of Hitler.

Germans surrender.

Camera operator R. Karmen is filming.

Fighting on the streets of Berlin, Katyushas are firing, a column of German prisoners is passing.

Polish soldiers are firing guns.

Tanks are driving by, ruins are burning, Polish soldiers are running to attack.

Night battle on the streets of the city.

Burning Berlin, corpses of German soldiers.

A Soviet soldier leads an old German out of the ruins.

A woman is wiping a Soviet soldier's face.

A flamethrower is firing from a house window, Soviet soldiers are carrying a wounded soldier.

Orderlies are carrying the wounded, a soldier is bandaging a wounded man.

Newsreel from the 1920s and 1930s: The Reichstag building in Berlin.

Newsreel from 1945 - Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, destruction, fire.

A soldier takes a shell with the inscription "To the Reichstag!" Soviet guns fire at Berlin.

Destroyed streets of Berlin, explosions, fire.

Fighting on the streets of the city.

Soviet soldiers run with a banner to the Reichstag building, climb the stairs.

Cameraman B. Dementyev films on the steps of the Reichstag.

Soviet soldiers hoist the banner over the Reichstag.

Soldiers at the banner salute with weapons.

German generals emerge from a bunker.

Columns of German prisoners of war march through Berlin.

White flags are hung from the windows of houses.

Soldiers at a gun.

Soldiers clean their boots, write letters, a soldier sleeps.

May 1945 - Anti-fascist uprising in German-occupied Prague: people running down the street, rebels leading prisoners, people with weapons, rebels building barricades.

Fighting Czech rebels with fascist troops - German tanks on the square, shells exploding, rebels shooting, street fighting.

Troops of the 1st, 2nd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts are heading from Berlin to Prague to help the rebels - columns of Soviet tanks are moving, Soviet planes are taking off and flying.

German planes over Prague.

Rebels are carrying a wounded man, executed rebels.

Soviet tanks are moving, tanks are entering a Prague square.

Residents of Prague are greeting Soviet troops.

Marshal Konev and other military leaders are driving through the streets of Prague.

Cavalrymen of the Czechoslovak Corps on the streets of the city, joyful residents.

Newsreel: Residents of Prague greet Soviet soldiers.

Funeral of fallen Soviet soldiers in Prague.

Graves of fallen soldiers.

Residents of Prague knock down a German sign from a house, throw the plaque into the river.

A man paints over the sign on the wall.

A Czechoslovak flag is raised on a house.

Papers are thrown out of the windows, a portrait of Hitler and a fascist flag are thrown into the fire.

Germany - Hitler's destroyed office, a globe, a table, a sculpture of Hitler among the rubble.

Hitler at the banner.

People raise their hands in a fascist salute.

People hit the sculpture of Hitler with sticks.

Photographs of Hitler.

Soviet officers and cameraman I. V. Panov at the body of a German with a photograph of Hitler.

The bodies of Goebbels, his wife and children.

Destroyed streets of Berlin - various.

Soviet tanks with banners drive down a Berlin street.

Former concentration camp prisoners walk down the street, carrying things in carts.

An accordion player plays, Soviet soldiers and officers dance.

General Chuikov and other military leaders walk along the streets of Berlin.

Soldiers "rock" General Chuikov, a soldier takes pictures.

Soviet soldiers and officers take pictures.

Soviet soldiers distribute food to Berlin residents.

Refugees return to Berlin - people walk along the streets, carrying things.

Marshal Zhukov, General Berzarin and others.

Berlin residents read the order of the city garrison commander.

Berliners buy bread, a line for food.

A female soldier distributes bread to Germans.

Traffic controller L. Ovcharenko on the square near the Brandenburg Gate. L. Ovcharenko speaks (synchronously).

Newsreel: Soviet military leaders at the Brandenburg Gate.

Marshal Zhukov and a group of military leaders inspect the battlefields in Berlin, walk along the streets of Berlin.

Marshal Zhukov and other military leaders inspect the destroyed Reich Chancellery.

Zhukov at the map.

Zhukov, Rokossovsky and other military leaders.

Berlin Tempelhof Airfield.

Arrival of representatives of the Supreme Command of the Allied Forces (USA, England and France) to sign the act of Germany's surrender.

Air Marshal Tedder greets the Soviet military leaders, introduces Colonel General of the US Army Spaatz to Marshal Sokolovsky.

Field Marshal Keitel and other representatives of the German command in a car.

A car with military personnel moves along the street.

A house in Karlshorst.

Marshal Zhukov, Marshal Tedder, General Spaatz, General Delattre de Tassigny and others enter the room.

National flags of the USSR, USA, England and France.

Marshal Zhukov opens the ceremony of signing the capitulation - synchronously.

Military leaders of the Soviet army and allied forces are sitting.

Representatives of the Hitlerite command, Field Marshal Keitel, enter the hall.

Zhukov speaks - synchronously.

Ceremony of signing the act of surrender of Germany.

Keitel, Marshal Zhukov and others sign.

Representatives of the Hitlerite command leave the room.

The destroyed Reichstag.

Photographs of Soviet soldiers at the Reichstag building.

Reichstag columns with inscriptions.