Soviet advance into Berlin, Germany during World War II Battle of Berlin. Soviet tanks and troops advance into Berlin from all direction and continue to bombard the city. Hungry German civilians cut up a dead horse on a street, desperate for food. Soviet soldiers carry an injured comrade on a stretcher. An injured Soviet Army soldier is assisted in walking by another Russian soldier through the rubble of Berlin. A Soviet soldier fires a shoulder mounted rocket launcher at a building. Desperate German civilians (women, older men, elderly) form a queue line to fill cups from a wooden water barrel. Many wear white arm bands. An older woman scrapes her fingers across a barrel opening looking for any bit of food or drink. A mass of tangled and smashed civilian cars and military vehicles fills the streets in one area, completely blocking any movement. Soviet soldiers continue to capture Berlin street by street. Smoke fills the streets. Civilians carry buckets of water from a street pump. Soviet army vehicles advance on street. Soviet tanks fire at buildings and Russian soldiers fire machine guns at German enemy soldiers in buildings, and then advance into the buildings. Line of German children, women, and elderly men holding buckets as they wait for water. They wear white arm bands. Two older German men pump a water pump to draw water for the crowd of civilians. Heavy Soviet artillery firing from positions in the streets of Berlin. Soviet troops climb over piles of rubble and through bombed out buildings and continue to fire rifles and submachine guns at enemy positions. German soldiers emerge from a building with their hands up, surrendering to Soviet troops. One Soviet soldier is behind the group moving them at gunpoint. Another group of German soldiers emerges from a small doorway with their hands up, as Russian soldiers point rifles at their exit area. At least one of the German soldiers appears to be a fairly young teenage boy soldier. Animated map depicts the Soviet capture of Berlin, sweeping in circles across zones of the city.
East Germans cross the Berlin Wall (also known as the “Wall of Shame”) in Berlin, Germany in the year 1962. View of the Wall of Shame or Berlin Wall. Reflective mirror light from atop a tower intended to block western observation of activity in East Berlin. Officer looks through binoculars at the East German guards across the wall. Communist East German guards carrying away body of Bernd Luenser who was shot trying to escape to West Berlin. Russian guards loaded in buses move through streets. Freedom bell in the Rathaus Schöneberg rings. General of the United States Army Lucius D. Clay salutes as the Allied soldiers march past in the streets of West Berlin along with United States tanks.
View of a fountain in front of the Berlin Cathedral. People stand in front of the City Palace of Berlin (the Stadtschloss Berliner, Schloßpl. 1, 10178 Berlin, Germany). An equestrian statue of a German emperor near the Berlin Cathedral or Unter den Linden. People walk on a road. People walk by sculptures besides the road. The National Gallery of Berlin (Alte Nationalgalerie, Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin, Germany). People walk on the sideways near the Nationalgalerie.
Ruins in Berlin, Germany, following Battle of Berlin, near end of World War II in Europe. The Allied victory is celebrated with simple fireworks at night, as seen in the distance, with the damaged Brandenburg Gate in the foreground. Allied soldiers look at a burning building, with street intersection signs in front denoting Am Botanischen Garten and Unter den Eichen. Sweeping, elevated view of the heavily damaged city. Various wrecked statues and monuments. Closeup views of the somewhat damaged National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument in front of the Stadtschloss. Closeup of what appears to be a Soviet woman soldier and Soviet male soldier relaxing against smaller sculptures at the base of the Kaiser Wilhelm equestrian statue within the monument. Camera pans wide views of destroyed major buildings in Berlin including the Reichstag and the significantly damaged Hitler Youth Headquarters building (Soho House) with sign "Hitler Jugend") over entry way, and round symbol containing a swastika inside a diamond shape. Civilians walk past various bombed buildings and landmarks of Berlin. A man pushes a trolley.
A film titled "Berlin calls on the world" about protests against the Soviet blockade in Berlin, Germany. German civilians on the base of the Victory Column or the Siegessäule (Großer Stern 1 10557 Berlin). People gathered in front of the bomb-damaged Reichstag. Many people gather for a freedom rally in Platz der Republik. German political activist Franz Leopold Neumann addressees the crowd. People applaud. Acting Mayor Friedenberg speaks into a microphone during the rally. Chairman of the City Assembly Dr. Seward speaks that people in East Berlin do not enjoy any freedom. Gustaf Hinch of the Independent Trade Movement speaks. Carl Konnitzer representing street car workers, city assemblyman Rudolph Markovit and Joachim Lipschutz present. Discharged official of the Eastern Sector Ernest Reuter speaks.
At beginning, the film shows views of the smoking ruins of Berlin from an overflying aircraft. Scene shifts to illustrations of confilict in 18th Century Berlin. A sculptured bust of young Frederick the Great of Austria. Flags of various States and historic horns displayed in a museum where all the exhibits are labeled in Russian. Flash forward to the final phases of the Soviet offensive against Berlin, Germany during World War 2. Soviet soldier picks up an artillery shell and hands it to member of a gun crew who loads it into the breech of a harge gun. Another Soviet gun being loaded. Soviet artillery pieces of all sizes and kinds are seen firing into Berlin, creating explosions and smoke and demolishing buildings. A civilian man and woman run along a street carrying their belongings in a baby carriage. Other German civilian refugees fleeing the battle zones. Three Soviet officers confer looking at a map. Soviet infantry running from house to house. A woman running along a rubble strewn street. Civilians taking shelter at corner of a building. A boy holding his ears against the sounds of the artillery fire, as he joins several civilians sheltering in a doorway. Three civilian women with their belongings walk along a street but stop and turn back when a building ahead of them is struck by shellfire and partly collapses into the street. A woman running away from the battle zone trips and falls down. Soviet troops using a flame thrower that sets a building on fire. Soviet infantry scampering through damaged buildings and rubble.
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