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German surrender in WWII: Arrival of delegations at Tempelhof airfield in Berlin, tour through destroyed Berlin
Flags of Allied nations hoisted by soldiers at a ceremony at Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. Military Generals of England and the United States descend from a plane. Lord Tedder and United States Army Air Force General Carl Spaatz shake hands and talk with Russian officers including Marshal Sokolovsky. German Field Marshal Keitel and others in his delegation arrive at the airport. Military band plays and Russian honor guard marches as British, American, and Soviet officials observe, while Keitel and his staff consult over paperwork in a car. Motorcade drives through ruined city of Berlin. Many views of various damaged and destroyed buildings and bridges filmed from a moving vehicle in the motorcade. Rubble all over the city roads and citizens moving about the streets, some observing the motorcade. Views of the building in Karlshorst, in a suburb of Berlin, where signing of the Nazi surrender takes place. Views of the Meeting hall (converted from a mess hall) before the signing . Views of the various military officials in the building before the signing of the surrender. Excerpt from Japanese newsreel. (World War II period).
Signing of the German surrender documents at the end of World War II in Europe
The converted mess hall in Karlshorst, outside Berlin where signing of the German surrender takes at the conclusion of World War 2. British delegation arrives and take their seats. Flags of United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain at the meeting hall. Nazi delegation arrives and takes their seats at the side of a table. Nazi officials Field Marshal Keitel, Colonel Stumpff and Admiral Friedeburg sign the document. Lord Tedder, General Spaatz and Marshal Zhukov sign the document.
Alsos operation carried out in Berlin by Allied Forces of World War II.
Alsos operation in Germany. Brandenburg gate in Berlin soon after the end of World War 2. Soviet Russian motorized unit passes on road. Views of Berlin main areas as seen from a moving vehicle. Ruins of bombing seen in city and crowd lined up on roadside. Citizens clearing rubble of buildings. American unit passes through Brandenburg gate near citizens in a black market area. Troops and crowd gathered outside a building. American officers walk out of a building at conclusion of the Alsos mission.
Soviet forces attack German heartland during World War II.
Soviet forces laying siege to Germany in Battle of Berlin and environs, during World War 2, are seen in positions at the front under many sets of camouflage netting. Closeup of Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov and then of Zhukov and other officers in a dugout, under camouflage netting. Camera pans downhill toward other dugouts. One contains an artillery officer looking through periscopic binoculars. Breech view of Soviet gun crew loading a shell into a heavy artillery piece. The gun fires. Numerous artillery batteries firing and explosions on the ground. Soldiers use a wheeled cart to carry a heavy shell to a gun crew. Other soldiers carry propellant charges over their shoulders and gun crew member rams them into gun breech. Gun crew officer gives signal and gun fires. Another gun crew receives shells and fires its gun. Numerous gun batteries firing and shells exploding. Marshal Zhukov and staff observing the artillery attacks. Formations of Petlyakov Pe-2 attack bombers seen inflight. Marshal Zukov and staff looking skyward at Soviet bombers overhead. Views of the Petlyakov Pe-2 attack bombers overhead. Views from a bomber dropping bombs. Extreme aerial closeup bombs-away shot of underside of Pe-2 bomber as it releases bombs. View from bomber of its bombs dropping and exploding in concentrate area below. More bombs dropping and explosions on ground. More views of artillery batteries firing. Empty artillery shells piling up near a gun crew. A flight of Ilyushin Il aircraft buzz the field where many are parked. Ilyushin II aircraft in formation and then strafing ground targets. Batteries of Katyusha multiple rocket launchers firing. More Ilyushin II planes strafing targets. One of them is struck by gunfire and explodes.
Soviet forces advance westward towards Berlin during World War II
Opening scene shows Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov and officers of his staff walking across a field in Russia, during World War 2. Soviet SU-100 (Samokhodnaya Ustanovka 100) tank destroyers armed with a 100 mm anti-tank guns, rush past the camera. Next, Marshal Zhukov is seen surrounded by senior Soviet officers as he speaks on a field telephone. A formation of Soviet warplanes flies over the advancing tank destroyers. Marshal Zhukov and staff observe field operations from an established trench covered by a camouflage netting. Closeup of Zhukov examining a map. Soviet armor moving under fire from German shells exploding near them. Glimpse of Zhukov and staff in another observation point. Soviet armor and infantry enduring explosions from German gunfire and moving forward in smoke. Animated map shows gradual Soviet advances beginning at the River Oder and pressing toward and beginning to encircle Berlin.
Soviet combat film showing segments of the Battle of Berlin in World War II, including Soviet soldiers planting Red flag atop the Reichstag building.
Opening scene shows Soviet soldiers, carrying PPSh sub machine guns with drum magazines, enter burning building in Berlin during World War 2. One is seen dragging a German soldier from a cellar. The German soldier immediately falls to the ground and the Soviet soldier does too, to avoid gunfire. View from inside a burning shop as Soviet soldiers enter. Others climb stairs inside an elaborate building and throw throw down a suit of armor. A tank fires its gun. Heavy white smoke rising obscures everything behind the Brandenburg Gate. View of the Quadriga statue atop the Brandenburg Gate. Flashback glimpse of German troops marching through the Brandenburg Gate much earlier in World War 2. View of that same area now a scene of destruction and fire. Soviet troops fire a heavy gun in a street. Its shell strikes causing a large explosion and raising heavy smoke. Soviet soldiers loading rockets into a Katyusha launcher. The rockets being fired and striking buildings and creating fires. Shells being picked up to load a heavy gun. A Soviet 152 mm gun M1935 (Br-2) firing in the street. Other artillery firing in the streets. Brief closeup of two Soviet gunners. Smoke rising everywhere as Soviet troops carrying a Red flag rush toward the Reichstag building. They clamber up the steps of the badly damaged building, and enter it. Next, accompanied by several others, a soldier ties a Red flag to the Statue of Germania atop the Reichstag Building. Group of Soviet soldiers pose and wave tor their photographer. Another glimpse of the Red Flag waving vigorously in a strong wind on the Germania statue. More views of posing Soviet troops. View from the ground of the Red Flag on the Germania statue.