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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220676-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1945
Country: Eastern Europe,Germany,Japan
Location: Berlin,Nuremberg,Torgau
TC Begins: 09:00:00
TC Ends: 09:09:32
Duration: 00:09:32
WWII - Fall of Berlin & End of War, Soviet Viewpoint Russian planes flying overhead, Russian officer watch from foxhole. Poor quality shots bombs away, aircraft strafing. Artillery and rockets fired. Russian tanks and troops advance. AV Berlin showing destruction. Russians loading big gun. Street fighting, locals run for cover. Man cutting meat / flesh from dead horse. Queue for water - woman licks moisture from finger after rubbing it on hole in barrel. 09:01:23 Berlin’s Commandant Gen. Weidling questioned, points to map explaining strategy as urged by Hitler before suicide - post-30Apr. Red Army firing rockets in street. 09:02:17 Soviet woman soldier handing out bread to Germans; soldier helping old man - VO says Red Army “saved all of Germany from the yoke of despised fascism”. Hand-held grenade launchers fired. Brandenburg Gate w/ burning wreckage in FG. 09:02:55 Reich’s Chancellery & Ministry of Propaganda after capture - ransacked interior & courtyard w/ burned documents - CU Goebbel’s body - burnt remains. Radio tower. More rockets fired. 09:03:30 Red Army soldiers run into Reichstag and red banners raised - staged. 09:04:16 Names on columns of Russian soldiers - graffiti. Liberated peoples, waves and cheers - more pro-Soviet narration. Liberation of Eastern Europe. 09:05:20 Keitel signs surrender 08May45. Allied army & Russians meet on Elbe. 09:05:55 Soviet forces battle scenes against Japanese. 09:06:22 Japanese surrender signed. Montage Allied soldiers faces in close up. Soviet army victors - return home, arriving by train - embraces and tears - greet their families, children. 09:08:03 Nuremberg trials. CUs in dock - Goering - Keitel - Jodl - Rosenberg - Ribbentrop - Frank - Schirach & Hess. Brief extract Hess making speech. WW2; VE Day / VJ Day.