Allied Conference in Yalta, Crimea in Ukraine on coast of the Black Sea. The British, Russian and United States representatives meet to plan the political future of Europe after World War II. Livadia Palace, the summer residence of former Czar Nicolas II. Special communication lines are strung. Soviet Foreign Secretary Vyacheslav Molotov waits at air base for the British and U.S. delegations. Soldiers march in a field. Flags of Russia, Britain and U.S. Plane arrives at base. British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Adviser to President Roosevelt Harry Hopkins and U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, W.Averell Harriman arrive. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrive by plane. Lavadia Castle at the island. Randolph Churchill, son of Sir Winston Churchill arrives by car with President Roosevelt's daughter Anna Roosevelt. Prime Minister of Soviet Union Marshal Joseph Stalin arrives. They discuss military and political postwar plans. They make decisions regarding postwar Germany. Family members of Allied officers visit the Palace. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin seated for a photograph.
The Russians attack Berlin, Germany near the conclusion of World War 2 in Europe. Heavy explosions on a street at night during Battle of Berlin. Billows of smoke rise from a burning building. Fuhrer Hitler addresses his troops at night. A torchlight parade. Soviet artillery shells the city of Berlin. Ruins of Berlin. The German citizens loot stores for goods.
The Russians capture the city of Berlin at the end of World War 2 in Europe. Russian troops and tanks advance during Battle of Berlin. Ruins in Berlin after facing the Soviet attacks. An animated map shows how the city is captured street by street. Smoking city of Berlin and Russian soldiers advance through rubble on streets. Troops street fight. Wounded soldiers are carried away on stretchers. Soviet woman soldier cleans the face of a male comrade. Nazi Army parades under the Brandenburg Gate in the past. Flame throwers set buildings on fire. Russian soldiers rush towards ruined Reichstag and plant the Soviet flag (or a Victory Banner) on the top amid salutes and cheers.
Interrogation of a German officer by Russian forces after the capture of Berlin at the end of World War II in Europe. The German officer is interrogated by a Russian officer at a desk. The German officer points out positions on a map. He also demonstrates the shaking hand or tremor of hand seen in Hitler. Russian officers examine charred bodies in Berlin. A possible Hitler doppelgänger or body double is among the dead.
Russian officers in Berlin after its capture during World War II. Soviet flags flying on various monuments and buildings in Berlin. Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov and other officials inspect the ruins in the captured German city. The damaged interior of the new Reich Chancellery building with a bust of Hitler in debris. Ruined German armored cars on the streets. Marshal Zhukov looks at Victory Lady atop Victory Column in Berlin at the end of World War 2 in Europe.
P-47 Thunderbolt fighter in flight over Germany near end of World War II in Europe. P-47 in flight over German towns and circling low over countryside. Aerial view of various buildings in towns and grassy fields.