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.
Ruins and rubble in Berlin, Germany following Battle of Berlin, near end of World War II in Europe. Exteriors of the damaged Berliner Sportpalast. A sketch depicts men playing sports. Cattle on a street. People move along streets beside bombed buildings, ruin, and debris. A jeep driven on a road. A tank on a street. Officers and soldiers pull a disabled tram or streetcar on tracks. Soviet Russian soldiers perform hopak dance.
A chimpanzee works at a zoo in Stuttgart, Germany. A chimpanzee named Sonny helps the zookeepers during the zoo’s feeding time. Sign for sealions in German. The chimpanzee picks fish from a container and places them in a bucket. People look on as the chimpanzee feeds the fishes to sea lions. Chimpanzee tosses fish to hungry sealions. A zookeeper feeds a sealion with more fish.
Nazi leaders Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Baldur Von Schiarch, Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel wearing headphones sit in prisoners dock and listen to testimony during Nuremberg trials in Germany. Hess sits with his head lowered, appearing ill. A man comes and speaks to him. Ribbentrop talks to Hess who then leaves the prisoner's dock. Policemen stand at the end of the dock. Men at British and American prosecution tables.
Nazi leaders tried for war crimes during Nuremberg trials in Germany. Justice Kravechenko of Soviet Union reads a statement from a bench. Prisoner's dock and courtroom as Sir Geoferry Lawrence speaks about Schutzstaffel, slave labor and experiments on human beings. The Tribunal adjourns and people stand to leave. Erich Raeder, Fritz Sauckel, Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering, Joachim Von Ribbentrop in prisoner's dock. The Tribunal resumes again, the following day.
More than 200 political prisoners burnt alive whereas some shot dead or electrocuted as they ran to welcome American troops at Leipzig concentration camp in Germany. The camp comprised of mainly Russian, Czech and Polish prisoners. Dead prisoners near the barbed wires. Russian slave women look at them from across barbed wire fence. (World War II period).
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