Battle for berlin (1945)

Soviet armored vehicles on the outskirts of Berlin.

Views of the sights and historic buildings of Berlin, damaged as a result of artillery shelling, aerial bombardment and street fighting.

View of the Brandenburg Gate, in front of them - burning ruins.

Gunners load rocket-propelled mortar shells with the inscription " On the Reichstag!".

Night bombardment of Berlin neighborhoods by Soviet rocket-propelled mortars.

Night street battles in the city, burning buildings, fires in city blocks.

Civilians on a burning street escape from the shelling.

Soviet military column on the street of the city.

Soviet tanks and artillery fire on the streets of Berlin.

Heavy howitzers fire direct fire, infantry fire from behind cover, tank officers at the observation post.

Civilians are hiding from the shelling in the surviving entrances, Soviet artillery and tanks are firing.

Shelling of city buildings.

Soviet soldiers are firing from captured grenade launchers.

First aid to the wounded, evacuation of the wounded to a safe place in various ways.

Soviet troops are fighting street battles.

The machine gunner fires a light machine gun.

Infantry fighting moves along the streets.

Soviet submachine gunners attack a burning Soviet tank.

Soviet infantry attack through the ruins.

The officer raises the soldiers to attack.

Advance by dashes during a street fight.

Panorama of a residential quarter occupied by Soviet troops.

Moving Soviet units from building to building.

The gunners roll the gun up the stairs.

The tank is firing at the building with the Germans holed up in it.

Soviet soldiers with a banner go to storm the Reichstag, climb the stairs to the entrance.

Strengthening of the red banner at the statue on the roof of the Reichstag.

Red Army soldiers greet the installed banner.

Small arms salute in honor of the capture of the Reichstag.

Faces of Soviet tankers.

Red banner over the Reichstag.

White flags hung from the windows and balconies of Berlin houses.

View of one of the streets, the refugees are returning home.

View of the streets of Berlin after the surrender of the garrison, white flags on the windows.

The inscriptions on the walls "Berlin will remain German!" in German.

Surrender of German soldiers, Soviet soldiers and officers escort prisoners to assembly points.

The commander of the defense of Berlin, General Weidling G., together with the staff officers, surrenders.

Columns of German prisoners of war on the streets of Berlin, the faces of captured officers and soldiers, men in civilian clothes among the prisoners.

Arrival of the Soviet general at the temporary headquarters.

Field Marshal Keitel signs the German surrender in Karlhorst on the night of May 8-9, 1945.