Public buildings in Washington DC, United States. Post Office with traffic in the foreground. Heavy vehicular traffic passes by. Sign over entrance 'US Post Office'. Sign over the door reads 'US Post Office'. Statue in front of the Federal Trade Commission. Wording over the door of Federal Trade Commission. Cars parked in front of the Federal Trade Commission Building. United States flag on building.
Fall of Berlin, Germany in Battle of Berlin during World War 2. Russian Army attacks Germany. Flames and smoke rise from buildings. Russian soldiers fire artillery and run through the streets of Berlin. Survivors read signs in German language posted on the walls. The signs instruct the German civilians to clean up the streets. Old people carry bricks. Women shovel debris. Hand carts on the streets. Past events show people crowded on streets and cheering as the Nazi soldiers pass by. The civilians fight for bread and wait in line for soup. An old woman walks on the street as a building burns.
Fall of Berlin, Germany, during Battle of Berlin in World War 2. Russian Army soldiers attack. Russian soldiers fire artillery and run through the streets of Berlin. German civilians are instructed to clean up the streets by the Soviet Army. Rubble on the street. Flames and smoke rise from buildings. Destroyed airplanes are shown in a burning field. A German pilot prisoner. Past events show Hermann Goering and Benito Mussolini greeted by Adolf Hitler. (World War II period).
Fall of Berlin, Germany. Russian Army attacks Germany during Battle of Berlin near end of World War 2 in Europe. Soviet Russian forces firing rockets into Berlin at night. Explosions and fire at night in Germany. Past events show Adolf Hitler at a torchlight parade. Nazi soldiers in the parade. Scene returns again to Battle of Berlin and rubble on streets of Berlin. Wrecked and damaged buildings. Flames and smoke rising up from the buildings. German civilians loot stores for food and goods. Desperate men and women rush out of the store with the goods amidst rubble in city.
Fall of Berlin, Germany. Russian Army soldiers in Germany. Rubble on streets of Berlin. Damaged buildings. Flames and smoke rise up from the buildings. Soldiers and tanks on street. A wounded man with other men. Animated map shows street by street capture of the city. Men stand near damaged buildings. People are helped out of the ruined buildings. (World War II period).
Opening scene shows view from behind Soviet artillerymen firing a light field piece in the heart of Berlin, Germany. Next, Soviet soldiers are seen scurrying along inside a building hallway. A solitary woman walks slowly along a deserted street. A rocket weapon is fired from a building window causing a cloud of white smoke to billow out over the street. Fires burn in buildings, as soviet soldiers run past them. A woman Soviet soldier tends to the wound of a male comrade as others stand nearby. (At TC:00:32, a Soviet soldier, with his head bandaged, fires a captured German Panzerfaust.) More views of burning buildings. Four Soviet soldiers carry a wounded comrade on a litter. A Soviet soldier enters a burning shop. Another Soviet soldier carrying a PPD SMD submachine gun, pulls a German Soldier from a hole in the sidewalk. The German prisoner lies on the ground and the Soviet soldier does, as well, seeking cover from gunfire. Soviet troops moving into a stairwell of a building. They throw the statue of a Teutonic knight in armor down the stairs. Views of explosions and smoke near the Brandenburg Gate as Soviet troops begin raising a red flag to the left. (From TC: 01:15 to 01:35 is a flashback to , German troops led by a military band, parading through the Brandenburg Gate, watched by German citizens. Momentary closeup of the German band and its leader, followed by a view of the troops marching surrounded by local civilians.) Scene shifts back to fires burning with Brandenburg Gate in background. Soviet troops loading rockets into a multiple launcher. More explosions and smoke. A Soviet M1931 B-4 203 mm heavy tracked howitzer firing point blank in the city. A Soviet field piece being fired. Glimpse of Soviet infantry firing rifles from behind a makeshift barricade.Glimpse of some Soviet tank crewmen. The Reichstag Building in ruins.Troops carrying the red flag climb the building steps and enter the building. Troops raising the red flag on a statue, as others cheer.
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