Berlin at the end of the war (32 photos)

Photos from the archives of the post-war Berlin, the magazine Life. Shooting was performed in July 1945, American photographer William Vendayvertom (William Vandivert).





1. View of the Brandenburg Gate and the Soviet occupation zone



2. Soviet occupation zone



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4. Schöneberg district



5. The Palace of Kaiser



6. air defense systems in the Tiergarten district



7. Reichstag



8. One of the external colonnades autographed Reichstag Soviet soldiers



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10. Inside the Reichstag, too, was painted almost to the ceiling



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12. View of the Reichstag from the edge of the Tiergarten. The highway leads to the Brandenburg Gate



13. Destroyed German Chancellery in the Wilhelmstrasse. Behind her in the garden was the entrance to Hitler's bunker (fyurerbunkere)



14. Reich Chancellery



15. Destroyed garden of the Reich Chancellery



16. Room Goebbels fyurerbunkere



17. Americans in the Reich Chancellery garden. In this trench Kempka zhёg body Fuhrer and Eva Braun



18. The main building of the Gestapo in the Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse



19. The Ministry of Propaganda in the Wilhelmstrasse - office Goebbels



20. The dilapidated American Embassy



21. State Opera Unter den Linden



22. ruined Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church



23. Remains of the German "Panther»



24. Obervalshtrasse - a place of fierce fighting



25. Analysis of the debris on Obervalshtrasse



26. The German refugees



27. At the bus stop



28. Battered war Brandenburg Gate



29. Near the Brandenburg Gate. American welcome the Soviet regulirovschitsa



30. Head of the Soviet occupation zone of Berlin, Major General Nikolai Barinov communicates through an interpreter with the US General Omar Bradley.



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32. Hitler Hitler Youth award Iron Crosses, April 20, 1945
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(Taken from bigpicture.ru)



... And here's what a Reichstag building is now (2007) photo from Vicky



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