



Inspection of the body of Hitler's double in Berlin in May 1945. A cameraman films.
The body of Hitler's double with a portrait of Hitler on his stomach.
The face of the deceased double.
Soviet officers collect material evidence of Hitler's suicide and destruction of his body in the ruins of the Reich Chancellery.
A tunic found in the ruins.
An elderly German answers the officers' questions and shows them the territory of the villa.
The officers enter the house.
The body of a Nazi functionary who hanged himself in the attic.
The bodies of children and women in the attic.
Bullet holes in the body of a dead girl.
A Wehrmacht officer's uniform.
Inspection of Goebbels's burnt body.
Fragments of Goebbels's body, burnt head and legs.
Officers inspect Goebbels's body.
The faces of captured German officers participating in the identification of Goebbels's remains.
Destroyed buildings of Berlin.
Inspection of the ruins of the Reich Chancellery.
Goebbels speaking from the podium.
The charred corpses of Goebbels' wife and children.
Representatives of the international commission inspect the remains of Goebbels' wife and children.
A captured German officer confirms the identities of the dead.
Corpses of German soldiers and officers on the ruins of the Reich Chancellery.
A fragment of the charred corpse of Goebbels.
Views of the ruins of Nuremberg, people with bicycles on the street.
Panorama of a destroyed city block.
Views of destroyed blocks, people walking along the streets.
Corpses of dead civilians and Volkssturm soldiers.
The door of the fence of an American prisoner of war camp closing.
A sentry on duty.
Views of the territory of an American prisoner of war camp, captured officers and generals on the territory of the camp during a walk.
Prisoners with mess tins in their hands enter the dining room.
A captured German general is reading a book, the interior of the captured general's room.
One of the captured generals is lying on a bunk, reading a book.
German generals during their stay in an American camp.
Captured generals during rest.
One of the generals hangs freshly washed laundry on a line.
The camp residents knock together wooden boxes and do carpentry.
One of the captured German generals carves a shoe tree out of wood.
A captured German general darns a sock.
Goebbels Joseph Paul - German statesman and political figure
05.1945-08.1945
Berlin Germany
Spring




A meeting of the international commission for the establishment of boundaries of occupation zones in Germany.
A map of Germany divided into occupation zones.
Refugees waiting to enter the Soviet zone.
A sign indicating the boundary of the American zone.
Refugees entering the American zone after the barrier has been raised.
Refugees returning to their homes walk along a city street, pushing carts with their belongings.
Refugees return home on various types of transport - bicycles, carts, trucks.
Refugees carry their belongings on carts.
A stand with rules of conduct when entering the English zone is installed.
Archive employees carry documents out of the ruins.
English officers talk with a German aviation specialist.
Aircraft designer Wernher von Braun and his entourage exit an American plane.
Von Braun's face.
Schacht among German industrialists talks with representatives of the American military administration.
Faces of German industrialists.
A view of part of the fence of a concentration camp.
Views of destroyed neighborhoods in a German city (above).
Views of destroyed houses.
Employees of a German address bureau sorting out citizens' cards.
Sorting letters.
Folders with documents on missing minors.
A radio announcer reads the names of wanted children.
Sheets of a file on wanted children with photographs.
Red Cross typists at work.
German prisoners of war returning home.
Former prisoners exit passenger cars.
Relatives meet returned prisoners.
Giving out clothes to one of the returned prisoners.
Braun, Wernher von -- German and American rocket and space technology designer
1945-1946
Germany
Summer Spring




Architects study plans of destroyed German cities.
Views of destroyed districts of Berlin (top).
Destroyed residential buildings of Berlin, a surviving piece of the wall.
Views and panorama of destroyed Dresden (top).
Destroyed historical buildings of Dresden.
Remains of the cathedral.
Views and panorama of destroyed districts of Leipzig.
Young people with shovels on their shoulders walk by (top).
A column of German citizens returning from the British zone, on a city street.
Panorama of a rally of residents of West Germany demanding work.
A representative of the administration speaks from the rostrum.
Views of destroyed districts of German cities (top).
Views of destroyed streets of Berlin.
Destruction in German cities, residential districts destroyed as a result of air raids, a destroyed railway junction (top).
Residents of one of the cities at tables of a restored summer cafe.
People who have lost their homes cook food and heat water on a fire in the street.
A woman squats on the pavement.
Panorama of rubble removal, people are removing the remains of a building.
Residents of one of the cities are tidying up their lawns and flower beds, cleaning up trash.
A helmet on a soldier's grave.
Panorama of a square littered with construction waste, people are removing rubble.
People are choosing parts of gas masks and straps of soldiers' helmets, dumped in a pile on a city street, for household needs.
A man with a bicycle is examining a wooden box.
A woman is examining a gas mask box.
Helmets and gas masks are lying on the ground.
Performance of a street artist, panorama of the street.
An organ grinder on the street of one of the cities in Germany.
Performance of a street musician in a helmet with bells.
A girl is sitting on the asphalt near the wall of a house, resting her head on her knees.
1945-1946
Berlin Dresden Germany
Summer Autumn




View of an American aircraft carrier.
Former Wehrmacht servicemen during a lesson at an American intelligence school.
An American instructor at the blackboard.
One of the cadets opens a textbook on the geography of the North American continent, the officer-instructor points to the regions of the United States on a map.
The school cadets cover their faces with open textbooks.
The instructor conducts an English lesson.
View of the hall where the ceremonial presentation of documents on completion of a special school is taking place.
A document on completion of school.
Presentation of documents to graduates.
A boy sells newspapers on the street.
A queue at a newsstand in Moscow.
People read newspapers on the streets.
Residents of European and Asian cities read newspapers while sitting on benches.
Workers discuss newspaper articles.
Passers-by on a street in New York.
A street sign.
Children from Asian countries in the hall during a charity concert.
Performance of young artists, faces of the audience.
A choir performs an oratorio.
The face of a black singer.
Children leave the cathedral with flowers in their hands.
American bombers at an airfield of one of the US Air Force bases.
The pilots stand in formation in front of the aircraft.
A fighter jet stands next to the bomber.
US identification marks on the wing of the aircraft.
View of the American bomber.
View of the tail section of the bomber.
Technicians check the bomber's engines.
A British policeman shakes hands with American pilots.
Landing of a carrier-based fighter jet.
A ceremonial meeting on the occasion of the arrival of American B-29 bombers at an air base in Great Britain.
The military are holding the national flags of the USA, Great Britain and the banner of the British Air Force.
Representatives of local authorities are speaking.
Bomber crews stand in formation in front of the aircraft.
Faces of American pilots.
The face of an officer of the French Air Force.
Panorama of the deck of a French aircraft carrier with carrier-based fighter jets on board.
Illuminated advertising of a movie theater.
Participants in pickets against the Iron Curtain walk in front of the movie theater with banners in their hands, a poster for the film "Iron Curtain".
Picketers clash with police, police officers try to push picketers away from the entrance to a movie theater on May 12, 1948, during a film premiere.
A queue to get into a movie theater.
Viewers enter the movie theater, police maintain order.
Workers at their machines in a workshop at one of the enterprises.
One of the workers gives an interview to a journalist about the film "The Iron Curtain." The face of a worker giving an interview and chewing a sandwich at the same time.
1946-1947 05/12/1948 1950s 1960s
USA New York Moscow Great Britain France Western Europe
Summer Spring




American tanks on the march during the Korean War in 1950-1953. Tankers loading ammunition into a tank.
American tanks firing.
An American machine gun crew firing.
View of a railroad bridge with destroyed spans.
Refugees crossing the river on a wooden plank near the bridge.
Refugees on the railroad tracks.
An American patrol inspects the road, faces of American soldiers.
American infantrymen during combat.
American tanks on railroad platforms, panorama of a railroad station.
The face of an American soldier.
A US Army unit on the march.
Refugees walking into the distance along the road.
Refugees walking along the railroad tracks.
American planes taking off.
Bombs exploding in North Korea (above).
An airplane launches missiles at a ground target.
American attack aircraft and bombers attack targets.
Dropping bombs on populated areas.
Aftermath of American air raids, panorama of ruins.
Carrying out wounded from burning ruins.
Women and children injured and killed by American air raids.
People leaving the ruins of their homes.
An elderly woman cries.
Parents carrying out wounded children.
People leaving a destroyed area, a woman next to things saved from a destroyed house.
A column of refugees moves along a road.
An American flamethrower opens fire.
A burning man.
1950-1953
Korea
Summer




American pilots during a briefing.
An officer points to the bombing areas on a map and the pilots’ faces.
The pilots stand up from their seats.
A view of the nose of a bomber.
A bomber taking off.
The crew of an American aircraft at the airfield putting on flight suits and parachutes before takeoff.
B-29 bombers taking off.
Bombers in flight.
A flight director with binoculars in his hands.
The face of an American officer.
A pilot sitting in the cockpit reading a newspaper.
Japanese bombers in flight, dropping bombs.
A burning village.
Ruins of a burning house.
US President Truman H. descends the steps of an aircraft, officers salute him.
Truman presents an award to one of the pilots.
An award on his uniform pocket.
Truman presents an award to one of the officers.
Truman’s face speaking to the military.
Loading artillery guns on board a ship, panorama of the pier of the cargo port.
Concrete pillbox with an inscription on the wall.
Troops march along a city street.
Men with hoes work in the field.
Churchill W. speaks from the rostrum.
American armored vehicles drive along the streets of West Berlin.
People's faces.
Street riots in West Berlin.
An American officer gets out of a jeep.
American officers at an observation post during nuclear weapons tests.
Nuclear explosions at the test site.
View of the Pentagon building (top).
Officers of various headquarters units at work.
Archive employees work with secret card indexes.
Work process in the Pentagon departments.
View of the streets of one of the US cities during the celebration of the New Year, 1950. View of part of the banquet hall (top).
Dancing participants of the New Year's banquet.
Balloons descend onto the square, people catch them.
Views of squares with dancing people (top).
Panorama of part of New York (top).
Production process in a printing house, production of posters and newspapers.
A politician giving an interview.
Panorama of the ruins of a quarter of one of the German cities.
People near temporary housing.
People sitting on a broken railway platform.
Panorama of ruins, a movie poster on the remains of a wall.
People on the streets of the city.
Beggars on the street beg for alms.
Women pick up scraps from the garbage.
People stand in line for groceries.
A woman reads announcements on a pole.
Children play on a broken anti-aircraft gun.
People who have lost their homes sit on the street with their things.
Truman Harry - American statesman and political figure Churchill Winston Leonard Spencer - British statesman and political figure
1945-1950
New York USA West Berlin
Summer Spring Autumn




Western small arms designers prepare a prototype of a machine gun with a laser sight for firing.
A target at a shooting range.
One of the testers aims the laser sight.
A luminous dot on the target.
Firing from a weapon with a laser sight.
Bullet holes on the target.
Scientists in a laboratory conduct experiments to create a laser weapon.
Demonstration of the capabilities of a laser weapon, destruction of a satellite in outer space (animation).
American planes in the air.
Airplanes taking off.
Engineers prepare a radar installation for operation.
The faces of engineers.
Conducting an experiment with a radio tube.
Conducting experiments with light beams to create new types of weapons in the early 1970s.
The course of the experiment.
Scheme of using one of the types of space weapons (animation).
A rocket flies over water.
An engineer takes data from control devices.
Operation of a beam installation.
1970s
USA




Street views of a city in the USA. Putting out a fire and a burning car.
Store owners pick up shards of a shop window from the sidewalk after the earthquake.
View of the destroyed sales area of a store.
Store employees clean up the sales areas.
Views of a residential building.
People in a damaged apartment.
A hole on the side of the highway, cars driving by.
A march of Ku Klux Klan members in a city in the USA. Marches of war veterans in the USA. A demonstration of Russian and Ukrainian nationalist emigrants.
Faces of the demonstration participants dressed in Russian and Ukrainian national costumes.
Distribution of Nazi leaflets on the street, a swastika on the sleeve of the jacket of the person distributing the leaflets.
Speeches by leaders of American Nazi organizations. "Mona Lisa" at an exhibition in the USA. Marines guard the painting.
A sign directing the way to the masterpiece.
US President John F. Kennedy and his wife walk up to the podium during the opening of the Mona Lisa exhibition in the United States in 1962. Kennedy delivers a speech from the podium.
Kennedy and his wife examine the Mona Lisa.
Visitors to the exhibition walk past the Mona Lisa and examine it.
A new British jet aircraft is taken out of the hangar.
The crew takes their seats.
The aircraft takes off.
The aircraft lands.
The crew members of the aircraft after landing.
American identification marks on the fuselage and tail of one of the aircraft.
The pilot in the cockpit prepares for the flight.
The aircraft in flight.
Landing of a British jet aircraft.
The aircraft taxis out of the hangar.
A team of technicians prepares the aircraft for the flight.
Faces of the crew members giving interviews.
The crew near the aircraft.
American aircraft at the airfield in 1946. The tail section of one aircraft in repair scaffolding.
The crew of the American B-36 intercontinental bomber put on suits to protect against the cold at altitude.
The B-36 aircraft with six pusher propellers in flight.
One of the crew members in the cockpit.
Panorama of the instrument panel.
The B-36 in flight.
The pilot in an oxygen mask at the controls of the aircraft.
A neo-Nazi demonstration in London in 1947. The leader of British neo-Nazis, O. Mosley, passes by.
The participants of the manifestation raise their right hands in a Nazi salute, Mosley climbs onto the roof of a bus with a loudspeaker.
Mosley gives a speech.
The participants of the manifestation salute Mosley.
Mounted police in an alley.
Police in a cordon, Mosley gives a speech.
Panorama of the manifestation.
Protesters against Nazism stand behind the cordon.
The police ensure order at the end of the manifestation.
A rally of peace supporters in London.
Mounted police in a cordon, police lead a detainee.
Mosley Oswald Ernald - British politician Kennedy John Fitzgerald - American statesman and political figure
1946 1947 1962
London USA
Summer Autumn




Car on the highway.
Types of multi-arch bridge in Europe, cars on the highway.
View of a road bridge in northern Italy.
Cars exit a tunnel.
Markings indicating the way to France.
Tourists take pictures of the sights of Rome, examples of ancient and medieval sculpture and architecture.
Tourists on the streets.
Panorama of an ancient city.
Panorama of an ancient city quarter.
A galloping horseman.
View of the seashore (from above), a horseman gallops along the water's edge.
An elderly coachman mounts the box.
A horse-drawn carriage moves away from the sidewalk.
A carriage travels along a Parisian street.
View of the Opera building in Paris.
A bucket on the axle of the carriage.
A carriage on the streets of Paris.
The hand of a cab driver presses the horn.
A cab driver feeds a horse with oats from a bag.
A cab driver during a lunch break.
Passengers get into the carriage.
Passengers' faces during the trip.
A carriage travels along the Champs Elysees.
Tourists riding in a carriage.
The face of a cab driver.
View of the Arc de Triomphe.
Passengers in a carriage.
View of the Eiffel Tower.
A cab driver carries tourists.
Views of Paris.
A woman with a stroller runs across the road in front of a horse.
View of the Conciergerie prison building.
The carriage passes by Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral.
View of the stadium (top).
Panorama of part of Paris.
Landscapes of France (top).
View of part of the highway (top).
View of a railway junction (top).
Views of historical castles and palaces of France (top).
View of the Eiffel Tower (bottom up).
Faces of tourists.
The Eiffel Tower elevator.
Passers-by on the streets of Paris.
View of the Invalides.
View of one of the bridges over the Seine.
Tourists board a pleasure boat.
Pleasure boats on the Seine.
View of part of the Ile de la Cite with Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral.
Entrance to Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral.
Tourists with cameras in their hands.
Views of ancient Parisian churches and the Eiffel Tower (above).
View of the Champs Elysees through the Arc de Triomphe.
View of the Arc de Triomphe on the Place de l'Etoile (above).
View of the districts of Paris adjacent to the Champs Elysees (above).
Views of London.
Advertisement on board a double-decker bus.
Passers-by on the streets of London.
Head of a stone lion.
Tourists looking at the sights.
Head of a statue.
Pigeons bathing in a puddle.
1960s 1970s
Italy Rome Paris France London
Summer Autumn




Soviet fighters and bombers in flight.
Intercontinental ballistic missiles at the parade on Red Square in Moscow.
An American submarine on a combat mission.
The submarine's crew prepares to launch a Polaris missile in the 1960s.
A missile in flight.
A nuclear explosion.
View of Red Square during the military parade on November 7. Students of military academies pass by.
Units of the Moscow garrison march along Red Square.
American tanks ready for battle.
Aircraft designer A. N. Tupolev strolls along the paths of the park, examines flowers.
Tupolev walks in the forest.
Tupolev's face during a meeting.
Faces of officers of the Soviet Air Force.
Technicians uncover the aircraft.
Checking the aircraft's engines, conducting pre-flight preparation of the combat vehicle.
Faces of pilots.
Officers at radar screens during flights.
The pilot takes his seat in the cockpit.
The face of a technician.
Technicians close the lower hatch of the cockpit.
Officers at the command post.
The pilot's face.
A missile carrier taking off.
The pilot in the cockpit adjusts his mask.
Soviet aircraft in flight.
One of the aircraft begins to perform a given maneuver.
The pilot in the cockpit.
The pilot in the cockpit of an aircraft beginning its takeoff run.
The face of a young pilot.
Jet fighters begin their takeoff run along the runway.
A fighter in flight, a pilot in the cockpit.
A fighter on the runway after landing.
A supersonic aircraft taking off in day and night conditions.
The radar is rotating.
Soviet bombers on a combat training flight.
The pilot's face in an oxygen mask.
One of the crew members removes the mask and wipes his face.
View of the instrument panel.
Faces of the crew members.
In-flight refueling.
Fighters during acceleration before takeoff.
The pilot signs the aircraft acceptance log.
The radar is rotating.
An aircraft in flight.
A pilot walks along the airfield.
An airplane taking off.
Performing aerobatics, a pilot in the cockpit.
Helicopter regiment command at the airfield.
Technicians in formation.
A flight of attack aircraft flies by, a pilot in the cockpit.
A flight of attack aircraft during a combat training sortie.
Aircraft landing.
A flight of attack aircraft in flight.
Tupolev Andrey Nikolaevich - aircraft designer
1960s 1970s
USSR Moscow On the sea
Summer