Film begins showing German General Helmuth Weidling, commander of the Berlin Defense Area, who surrendered his forces to the soviets on May 2, 1945, during World War 2. He is describing to a Soviet officer, interogator, using a pointer and map, the defense tactics of his Berlin defense. He also describes the condition in which he found Adolf Hitler when he last visited him at his Berlin Chancery. He demonstrates the palsy-like shaking of Hitler's hand. German officer being questioned as he sits on a curb. Soviet officers examine charred bodies including a possible Hitler body double or doppelgänger, lying on the ground in courtyard of the German Chancery. The area filled with trash. View of a very tall steel tower. Closeup of the Soviet Red flag flying atop that tower. View of the damaged Quadriga statue atop the Brandenburg Gate. Soviet Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov and other Soviet officer pass under Brandenburg Gate. View of Kaiser Wilhelm monument. Marshal Zhukov and his party walking through central Berlin past various monuments and Government buildings. Several Nazi Eagle symbols are seen displayed on buildings. Crystal chandeliers inside one building. Destroyed interior of building. A cast head of Adolf Hitler in trash outside a building. Other statuary and Swastika symbols in trash. Marshal Zhukov and party stop to examine two damaged German armored cars in courtyard of a building. View of the Victory Column in Tiergarten Park adorned with a Soviet Red flag. Marshal Zhukov looking upward at it and then walking up steps toward the monument base.
' Allied control council for Germany ' shows the taking over of the control by the Allied powers in Germany. British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery gets off a plane as he arrives in Germany. Montgomery being greeted by officers and he inspects an honor guard of Soviet troops. Commander in Chiefs of various Allied armies arrive at a building on June 5th, 1945. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, French Major General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and the Soviet representative Georgy Zhukov arrive and enter the building. General Eisenhower, Field Marshal Montgomery, Zhukov and Major General Tassigny sign the documents of the partition of Germany. The Commander in Chiefs pose outside the building.
Destruction of infrastructure in Berlin after World War II. Bomb damage to the interior of the Anhalter Bahnhof station in Berlin. Rubble piled up in a square. Damaged railroad tracks at the station. Demolished buildings in the background.
United States B-24 Liberator, drops bombs on German targets during Second World War. Bombs impact as B-24 goes into a dive. American P-47 aircraft in aerial action against German fighters. German ME-109 and ME-110 being shot down explode in mid air.
Aerial view of devastated city of Berlin in Germany at end of World War II in Europe. View of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag building, and many other landmark buildings of Berlin as seen from a low flying aircraft. Other destroyed buildings and the River Spree flowing through the city. The destroyed building of Rheinmetall Borsig plant.
Bomb damaged buildings in Berlin, Germany. Camera takes a slow tour down Under den Linden boulevard from the Brandenburg Gate eastward. Pedestrians walk and cars go under Brandenburg Gate. Many heavily bomb-damaged buildings along the boulevard. Large portrait of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin at square with red flags besides it, just east of the Brandenburg Gate. Damaged buildings of Unter den Linden. Buses, cars, and horse drawn carriages on the boulevard. Damaged car lays beside the road. (World War II period).