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Battle of Berlin 1945

Soldiers of the Red Army after the capture of Berlin, 1945

"From the day of victory!" (Headline): An officer explains the importance of the Reichstag to Red Army infantrymen, after they took the building. The order on the right says "Taking Berlin". The soldiers are armed with PPSch-41 machine guns.

Burning Soviet tank in Berlin, 1945

A shot Russian T-34/85 during the street fighting around Berlin.

Battle of Berlin

Battle of Berlin, Second World War, eastern front since autumn 1944 drawback, last fightings, Germany 1933-1945 National Socialism

Garden of the Berlin Reich Chancellery, 1945

The bunker of Adolf Hitler in the garden of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin after the conquest of Berlin by the Red Army.

Battle of Berlin

Battle of Berlin, Second World War, eastern front since autumn 1944 drawback, last fightings, Germany 1933-1945 National Socialism

Battle of Berlin

Battle of Berlin, Second World War, eastern front since autumn 1944 drawback, last fightings, Germany 1933-1945 National Socialism

Burning building during the Battle of Berlin, 1945

A building set on fire during the street battles in Berlin.

Edition of the "Panzerbaer" during the Battle of Berlin, 1945

One of the last editions of the Nazi newspaper "Der Panzerbaer" of the Ullstein publishing house, which appeared between 23 and 29 April 1945.

Berlin after the capture by the Red Army, 1945

The Potsdamer Platz in Berlin after the capture of the city by the Red Army. On the right, a destroyed 8.8 cm FlaK 18/36/37, which, until recently, was used in the fight against Soviet tanks. In the background a group of civilians in front of Russian road signs.

Battle of Berlin

Battle of Berlin, Second World War, eastern front since autumn 1944 drawback, last fightings, Germany 1933-1945 National Socialism

Message center of the German police in Kuestrin, 1945

A German policeman directs traffic in Kostrzyn. To his left is a dugout serving as a message center, that was made splinterproof with an iron door. The policeman wears a helmet of Czechoslovak origin, possibly from old stocks remained after the crushing of the remainder of Czechoslovakia in 1939.

German policemen dig trenches near Kostrzyn, 1945

Members of the German Fire Protection Police building splinterproof dugouts for their equipment carts.

Red Army soldiers in the conquered Berlin, 1945

Three Russian soldiers posing for the camera in the captured Berlin. The soldier in the center and the man on the right are armed with German MP-40, a popular booty weapon among Russian soldiers.

Advance guards of the Wehrmacht on the Oder Front, 1945

Three soldiers of the Wehrmacht observe the forefield to one of the remaining bridgeheads across the Oder. The soldier in the center carries his shelter half as a an overcoat to protect against rain and as camouflage.

Battle of Berlin

Battle of Berlin, Second World War, eastern front since autumn 1944 drawback, last fightings, Germany 1933-1945 National Socialism

Soviet tanks and soldiers in front of the Brandenburg Gate, 1945

General Vasily Chuikov speaks to Soviet soldiers from an IS-2 tank in front of the Brandenburg Gate. In the background are streetcars and sand-filled furniture carts, which served as roadblocks during the battle.

British and Soviet generals during the victory celebration in Berlin, 1945

In the center from left:the conquerer of Berlin General Georgy Zhukov (with sash), the British General Bernard Montgomery and the Soviet General Konstantin Rokossovsky during the Victory Parade in Berlin.

Red Army soldiers in front of the Fuehrer's headquarters after the capture of Berlin, 1945

Russian soldiers stand before the "Fuehrerbunker" on the site of the new Reich Chancellery, where the corpses of Adolf Hitler and Eva Brauns were burnt. The used fuel canisters are still next to the hollow.

Destruction in Berlin during the Second World War

Houses in Berlin devastated by bombing. [automated translation]

Hospital ship in Berlin, 1944

A hospital ship of the Berlin Hauptgesundheitsamt (Main Health Office) with 60 beds for the transportation in outsourced hospitals.

Ruined buildings in Berlin's Grosse Frankfurter Strasse following the end of WWII, Berlin, 1945, (b/w photo)

View from the crossing Andreasstrasse to Alexanderplatz, Berlin-Friedrichshain,

Russian T-34 tanks at Berlin

Russian T-34 tank at Berlin. Second World War, Battle of Berlin in 1945. The defensive ring around the imperial capital has collapsed. The tanks of the Red Army advance toward the city, passing by dead German soldiers and ruined defensive positions.

Red Army soldier at the destroyed Reichstag building, 1945

A soldier of the Red Army sweeping decorations and medals boxes on the stairs of the destroyed Reichstag building.

Soviet soldier with the head of a Hitler bust in Berlin, 1945

A cheerful laughing Soviet soldier carries a bronze Hitler's head as a souvenir, which he has found in the rubble of the destroyed Reich Chancellery immediately after the end of the fighting.

Fire in Berlin from an air raid, 1945

Burning house after an air raid on Berlin during the Second World War, 1945

The destroyed Brandenburg Gate at the end of WWII, 1945

Soviet tank in front of the Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) at the end of the Second World War in Berlin, Germany, 1945

Destroyed tram in the Oranienstrasse, 1945

A tram in the Oranienstrasse in Berlin, which was destroyed after an air raid.

Adolf Hitler Adolf hitler with Julius Schaub at the Reichskanzlei Building, 1945

Adolf Hitler (right) inspects the heavily damaged Reichskanzlei Building in Berlin together with his adjutant Julius Schaub. Adolf Hitler, politician, Austria, Jan.-April 1945: Letzter Frontbesuch

Adolf Hitler and Artur Axmann award Iron Crosses to boys from the Hitler Youth

Adolf Hitler and Artur Axmann (right) stride in front of a group of Hitler Youth who excelled in the fighting around Berlin and are presently being awarded the Iron Cross personally by Hitler. The location is the garden of the Reich Chancellery.

Fight for Berlin, 1945

A young and an older soldier with rocket-propelled grenades in a trench in Berlin. In the last days of the war, the so-called People's Army (Volkssturm) shall as a last resort stop the Russian divisions with bazookas. (Probably a film still)

German soldiers in a position in Berlin, 1945

Soldiers with a machine gun MG 42 in a trench ahead of Berlin.

Battle of Berlin,1945

Soviet fighter aircrafts of the type Ilyushin Il-2 flying over the Spree during an air raid in the last days of the war.

The last Nazi newspaper for Berlin, 1945

The latest propaganda writing from the 26th of April 1945, published under the title "Der Panzerbaer Kampfblatt fuer die Verteidiger Gross-Berlins".

Soviet rocket launchers on Asternplatz during the Battle of Berlin, 24th April 1945 (b/w photo)

Katyusha multiple rocket launchers,

Red Army soldiers on the roof of the destroyed Reichstag, 1945

Soldiers of the Red Army stand with the flag of the Soviet Union on top the roof of the destroyed Reichstag building and celebrate their victory.

Red Army soldiers in the ruined Reich Chancellery, 1945

Soldiers of the Red Army in the gallery of the destroyed Reich Chancellery. The sign says: "Adjutancy of the Fuehrer".

Destroyed houses in Berlin, 1945

View of devastated rows of houses on the Landwehr Canal during violent street battles in the Battle of Berlin.

Refugees seek shelter, 1945

Refugees with their few remaining belongings in the destroyed streets of Berlin. The woman was not even left with shoes, so she had to set out barefoot and search for a new place to stay. [automated translation]

Potsdamer Platz, 1945

Potsdamer Platz end of May 1945. In the foreground a destroyed anti-aircraft gun. In the background Potsdamer station.

The destroyed Berlin, 1945

A large part of the center of Berlin was destroyed by fighting and Allied bomb war.

Russian soldiers in front of the burning Reichstag, 1945

Russian soldiers in front of the burning Reichstag building, Berlin, Germany, 1945

Destroyed Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, 1945

View of the Reich Chancellery located on Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin, Germany, 1945

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of war in Berlin 1945 - Polish and Soviet soldiers in front of signposts pointing to Berlin (25 km), Wandlitz (7 km), Zühlsdorf (2 km), Oranienburg (12 km), Lenitc (Lehnitz, 8 km), Borgsdorf (6 km), Pinnow (8 km), Welten (Velten, 12 km), Zumt (Summt, 3 km). Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

II. WK - end of war 1945

At the end of the Second World War, a woman removes the street sign of a street renamed after Adolf Hitler from a house wall with a hatchet; the original sign in Russian reappears underneath. The place and date of the photograph are unknown. - Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

II. WK - "Victory or Siberia" 1945

National Socialist slogan "Siegen oder Sibirien" ("Victory or Siberia") on a house wall in Berlin in early 1945. This Goebbels slogan was intended to mobilize Berliners to the last minute. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Destroyed Berlin 1945

End of the war in 1945 in Berlin - street scene in front of the headquarters of the Reich Air Ministry on Wilhelmstrasse / corner of Leipziger Strasse (today the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Finance / Detlev Rohwedder House). Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

II. WK - Artillery in the East 1945

The motif from the National Socialist propaganda shows members of the German Wehrmacht at the card table determining the target for the use of a long barrel gun, issued in January 1945. The National Socialist reporting writes on 02.01.1945 on the back of the picture: "At the card table. Every shot fired from the barrel of the long barrel battery must be precisely calculated beforehand at the map table." Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - German tank traps 1945

In April 1945, German Volkssturm men set up tank traps all over Berlin to defend the city against the invasion of the Red Army. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - advance of the Red Army in the streets of Berlin in April 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - advance of the Red Army in the streets of Berlin in April 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - advance of the Red Army in the streets of Berlin in April 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - advance of the Red Army in the streets of Berlin in April 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Red Army in Frankfurt / Oder 1945

End of the war in Frankfurt / Oder 1945 - Red Army infantry fighting in the streets in March/April 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - Soviet (left) and Polish troops (right) during the battle for Berlin in April / May 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - German tank traps 1945

In April 1945, German Volkssturm men set up tank traps all over Berlin to defend the city against the invasion of the Red Army. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin 1945 - advance of the Red Army with guns in the streets of Berlin in April 1945, here in a Berlin suburb. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - advance of the Red Army in the streets of Berlin in April 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - advance of the Red Army in the streets of Berlin in April 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - German tank traps 1945

Tank barrier erected by German Volkssturm men at the Charlottenburg Gate on the east-west axis (today: Straße des 17. Juni) in Berlin in April 1945 to defend the city against the invasion of the Red Army. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin 1945 - advance of the Red Army with tanks and guns in the streets of Berlin in April 1945, here near the Reichstag building. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - advance of the Red Army in the streets of Berlin in April 1945, here Soviet soldiers ensure communication during the fighting in Frankfurter Allee. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - German tank traps 1945

Members of the German Volkssturm set up tank traps to defend Berlin against the invasion of the Red Army in early April 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin 1945 - Self-propelled gun carriage of the Red Army advancing on Berlin. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - advance of the Red Army in the streets of Berlin in April 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - German tank traps 1945

In April 1945, German Volkssturm men set up tank traps all over Berlin to defend the city against the invasion of the Red Army. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in 1945 in Berlin - entry of the Soviet cavalry in April 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - advance of the Red Army in the streets of Berlin in April 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin 1945 - advance of the Red Army in the streets of Berlin in April 1945, here Soviet soldiers of the 8th Guards Army at a machine gun on April 28, 1945 near Anhalter Bahnhof. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

Soldiers of the German Wehrmacht are taken prisoner by the Red Army in Berlin on April 30, 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in 1945 in Berlin - Soviet soldiers with camera equipment and a city map have their picture taken in front of a shot Berlin city sign as a memento. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in 1945 in Berlin - Soviet soldiers, who also fought in Stalingrad, have their picture taken in a Berlin streetcar in the first days of May in remembrance. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in 1945 in Berlin - soldiers of the German Wehrmacht are taken prisoner by the Red Army. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in 1945 in Berlin - Soviet soldiers have their picture taken in a Berlin streetcar in remembrance. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - After the German surrender in May 1945, the Soviet flag is hoisted over the destroyed city. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Red Army in Berlin 1945

A Soviet Red Army traffic policeman regulates traffic, photographed in Berlin in late 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - food distribution 1945

End of the war 1945 in Berlin - Soviet soldiers distribute soup to the starving population on April 30, 1945. [Attention: Image was retouched] Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - food distribution 1945

End of the war in 1945 in Berlin - Soviet soldiers distribute soup to the starving population in May 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin 1945 - Soviet soldiers at a fallen Reich eagle with swastika. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

A fallen soldier of the German Wehrmacht with Iron Cross lies on a street occupied by Soviet soldiers in Berlin in April / May 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of the war - survival in Berlin 1945

Women and men of the Berlin population search for usable items in the rubble of the city in April / May 1945. In the foreground a fallen soldier of the German Wehrmacht. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin 1945 - Red Army parade in the destroyed streets of Berlin on May 1, 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Red Army in Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin 1945 - soldiers of the Red Army hoist the Soviet flag from a balcony of the renowned Hotel Adlon, in the background Soviet units in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in 1945 in Berlin - German soldiers of various branches of the armed forces captured by the Red Army, including the Volkssturm, mostly young, old and wounded men. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Red Army in Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin 1945 - Red Army tanks in front of the Brandenburg Gate at Tiergarten. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - advance of the Red Army in the streets of Berlin in April 1945, in the background the hold-out slogan on a wall: "Berlin remains German". Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

Wounded soldiers of the German Wehrmacht are cared for by Red Cross nurses on the street Unter den Linden in Berlin, photographed in April / May 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

Fallen member of the Reich Labor Service in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in April / May 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

Postwar - Destroyed Berlin 1945

View over the ruins of the Nikolai quarter in Berlin Mitte after the end of World War II in 1945 - in the foreground the destroyed Nikolai church, on the left the dome of the palace, in the background the Reichstag building. On the right the Berlin Cathedral. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of war 1945 in Berlin - Soviet soldiers with tanks in front of the Brandenburg Gate at Tiergarten. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - food distribution 1945

End of the war in 1945 in Berlin - Soviet soldiers distribute bread to the starving population in May 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - homecoming 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - A woman returning home finds only the graves of her family members. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - soldiers of the German Wehrmacht, who had been hiding in the cellar, surrender to the Red Army. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin 1945 - Soviet soldiers at a fallen Reich eagle with swastika. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - members of the Red Army during a commemorative photo of the victory. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Berlin surrender of civilian population 1945

Red Army soldiers walk through a street after the capture of Berlin in May 1945, where the civilian population has hung white flags made of bedsheets from the windows as a sign of surrender. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

Postwar period - Living in Berlin 1945

Family in emergency quarters on Reichsstraße in Berlin Spandau after the end of the war in 1945. The barracks, which were used until the mid-1950s, were known to Berliners as "Das grüne Elend" (The Green Misery). Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Destroyed Berlin 1945

End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - view across the Spree River to the heavily damaged Berlin Cathedral and parts of the palace ruins (l.). Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Fraternization 1945

After the end of the war in 1945 in Berlin - first encounters between occupiers (Soviet soldiers) and occupied. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of war - Battle for Berlin 1945

End of the war 1945 in Berlin - Soviet soldiers in the Great Hall of the New Reich Chancellery in Voßstraße. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

End of the war - everyday life in Berlin 1945

After the end of the war in 1945, a woman writes a message "We are all alive" on the wall of the Ernst Holler children's hat factory in Berlin. Photo: Fotoarchiv fuer Zeitgeschichte/Archiv [automated translation]

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