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.
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).
Hungarian women prisoners examined by doctors at Penig concentration camp in Germany in World War 2. Doctors examine patients with gangrenous wounds. Prisoners taken away on litters to a former German Air Force hospital by Red Cross. Nazi forced to look after the victims. Patients treated by American doctors in a hospital.
The Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. Military policemen guard the area as civilians and military personnel enter the court house. Justice Geoffrey Lawrence reads from a document. Justice Francis Biddle and Henri D de Vabres speak. Hermann Goering, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Hess and other defendants in prisoner's dock. Russian justices and justice Brikett at the bench. Robert H Jackson, American prosecutor at the table. (World War II period).
The Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Hess, Wilhelm Kietel sit in prisoners docks as judge sentences them. Wilhelm Kietel, Alfred Rosenberg, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Hans Frank, Wilheim Frick, Julius Streicher, Walter Funk, Hjalmar Schacht, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder. Chief Russian prosecutor General RA Rudenko at the prosecution table. Thomas J Dodd and Sir Hartley Shawcross at the prosecution table. Alfred Jodl, Franz Von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart. Hans Fritzsche and Constantin Von Neurath. A door closed by a military police. (World War II period).
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