Images

These are the photographs the articles were written around, rescued from the old site. Material held by other institutions — National Archives photography, Army Map Service sheets, newsreel film, operational records — is catalogued separately under Holdings, with the rights statement each institution published.

• Soviet troops introduce artillery onto Wilhelmstraße Uncredited
• Berliners clearing the streets of rubble following an Allied air attack - October 1940 Bundesarchiv
• Berliners stumble through the rubble of the city following an Allied air attack - February 1945 Bundesarchiv
• The streets of the city being cleared of debris from an Allied air attack before the Battle of Berlin - February 1945 Bundesarchiv
• A female Soviet soldier directing traffic 165km from Berlin Uncredited
• Red Army Tanks of the 2nd Tank Guards Army Uncredited
• The Vistula-Oder Campaign Unattributed
• Volkssturm men on the Oder in 1945 Bundesarchiv
• The extent of war damage on Berlin's Friedrichstrasse Bundesarchiv
• The Soviet offensive at the Seelow Heights signals the start of the Battle of Berlin Uncredited
• Soviet troops reenact an attack on German positions Uncredited Reenactment
• Soviet troops reenact an attack on German positions Uncredited Reenactment
• Marshal Georgy Zhukov (centre) and Marshal Ivan Konev (right) Mil.ru (Russian MoD)
• The situation on April 16th 1945 on the Oder front Uncredited
• The movement of Soviet troops during the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation Uncredited
• Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov at his command post Uncredited
• Soviet artillery carry out a bombardment of German positions on the Oder Bundesarchiv
• General Gotthard Heinrici - head of German Army Group Vistula Bundesarchiv
• Soviet propaganda depicting the Battle of Seelow Heights Uncredited
• Troops of Ivan Konev's 1st Ukrainian Front construct a bridgehead across the Neisse Uncredited
• An exhausted German soldier of the 9th Army at Seelow Heights Uncredited
• The situation on the Western Front by mid-April 1945 Unattributed
• German re-enforcements (with a press photographer) are shuttled to the frontlines Uncredited
• Wounded Red Army soldiers Uncredited
• Soviet tanks of Ivan Konev's 1st Ukrainian Front advance to secure Zhukov's left flank Uncredited
• A German observer at the Seelow Heights Uncredited
• A column of ISII tanks near Berlin in 1945 Uncredited
• Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner, head of German Army Group Centre Bundesarchiv
• A T-34/85 emerges from the west bank of the Spree river - Konev’s Fourth Guards Tank Army Uncredited
• Paratroopers of the 9th Parachute Division prepare to counterattack on 18 April Uncredited
• A Soviet convoy passes a destroyed German Tiger I and a Tiger II tank at Seelow Heights, 1945 Uncredited
• Head of the 2nd Belorussian Front, Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky (left) Uncredited
• Men of the 9th Parachute Division Uncredited
• A T34/85 of the 12th Guards Tank Corps and German prisoners of war. Wikimedia Commons
• The remains of a German StuG IIII Ausf G stuck in the mud of Brandenburg Uncredited
• Soviet self-propelled gun ISU-122 moves along the street of the village in Brandenburg Uncredited
• A Soviet 203mm B-4 Howitzer opens fire on Berlin Uncredited
• The Zoo Flak Tower - Charlottenburger Tor is visible on the left Uncredited
• Construction of barricades on Hermannstrasse in Berlin Bundesarchiv
• Siam the elephant (left) in the Berlin Zoo - the only elephant to survive the war Unattributed
• One of two final photos of Adolf Hitler in the New Reich Chancellery Uncredited
• Elderly men of the Volkssturm (People's Militia) are gathered in April 1945 Bundesarchiv
• One of two final photos of Adolf Hitler - take on April 20th 1945 (pictured with Julius Schaub - Hitler's aide and adjutant) Uncredited
• Wreckage littering Reichsbahn 1 - left behind by retreating elements of the German 9th Army and civilian refugees Uncredited
• Soviet tankers move into Berlin’s outskirts Uncredited
• On April 20th and 21st, the prisoners from the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp were forced into death marches heading westwards and away from the Soviet front Uncredited
• Soldiers of the 1st Parachute Division 'Hermann Göring' inspecting a Polish IS-2 tank near Bautzen Uncredited
• Barricades erected at Potsdamer Platz Bundesarchiv
• Shturmovik ground attack aircraft would continue to harrass the retreating German forces all the way back to Berlin Uncredited
• German Army High Command buildings in Zossen Uncredited
• SS Obergruppenführen Felix Steiner - head of the III SS Germanische Corps Bundesarchiv
• Red Army troops advance into Berlin’s suburbs alongside a Soviet tank Uncredited
• A section of the National Labour Service’s female branch (RADwJ) prepare to mount their bicycles and support their male defenders by delivering messages or other tasks Uncredited
• Many Berliners still held out hope that the US Army on the Elbe could reach the city before the Soviets Uncredited
• Aerial reconnaissance of the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp taken by the British Royal Air Force Uncredited
• With the execution of Operation Clausewitz on April 20th 1945, Berlin had been transformed into a frontline city full of improvised barricades Bundesarchiv
• Berlin's largest airport - Tempelhof - would eventually fall to the Soviets on April 26th US National Archives
• Soldiers of Ivan Konev's 5th Guards Mechanized Corps took a POW camp at Treuenbrietzen liberating 1,600 British, American, and Norwegian soldiers - including Otto Ruge (former commander of the Norwegian Army) Uncredited
• Soviet artillery in Pankow during the Battle of Berlin Uncredited
• Wreckage of Fokke-Wulf FW.190 Fighters at Tempelhof airport Uncredited
• Men of Fifth Shock Army prepare to cross the Spree river on 23 April. Uncredited
• The Soviet artillery tractor Voroshilovets tows a 203-mm howitzer B-4 on the outskirts of Berlin Uncredited
• Hermann Göring's telegram to Adolf Hitler on April 23rd 1945 Uncredited
• On April 23rd 1945 it was still possible to access Berlin from the west - although refugees from the city and the east were clogging the roads Wikimedia Commons
• Soviet soldiers searching for targets in Berlin – April 24th 1945 Uncredited
• Operation Clausewitz plan in Berlin Uncredited
• A German woman is instructed in how to use a Panzerfaust Uncredited
• Bringing forward the heavy guns of Fifth Shock Army’s Breakthrough Artillery Division (sign on the right reads: "This is the fascist nest Berlin" Uncredited
• Theodor Busse's 9th Army continued to fight outside Berlin - A light anti-aircraft gun fires on Soviet troops as they advance towards Ninth Army’s positions in the Spree forests. Uncredited
• Destined to become some of the last defenders of Sector Zitadelle - a group of French Waffen SS (Charlemagne) arrived in Berlin late on April 24th Uncredited
• The US 69th Division and Soviet 58th Guards Rifle Division met at the river Elbe on April 25th 1945 Uncredited
• Padded self-propelled unit of the 1st Polish tank corps in Bautzen Uncredited
• 7th Tank Guard Corps in Berlin' suburbs during the Battle of Berlin Wikimedia Commons
• The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin Dahlem Unattributed
• The Karstadt Department store in Neukölln - Berlin's 'first skyscraper' Fortepan
• Soviet orderlies move an injured soldier from a stretcher to a wagon Uncredited
• Soviet soldiers and officers are photographed in their free time at a place of deployment in the Tempelhof district of Berlin Uncredited
• The Soviet plan of attack on the centre of Berlin - April 1945 Uncredited
• Armoured vehicles and artillery of the 1st Belorussian Front in the east of Berlin Uncredited
• A posed photo of Soviet soldiers entering the Frankfurter Alle underground Uncredited
• Soviet Red Army troops advance in Berlin to take up new positions (with a photomontage addition of a dead German soldier) Uncredited
• Soviet infantry moving through the streets of Berlin Uncredited
• Soviet tank in Berlin 1945 Uncredited
• Head of the 8th Guards Army and Hero of Stalingrad, Vasily Chuikov (second left) Mil.ru (Russian MoD)
• Anhalter Bahnhof - before the Second World War, the largest train station in Europe Uncredited
• Soviet officers next to the bodies of a dead company commander and Volkssturm fighter Uncredited
• A column of Soviet artillerymen on the march along the Frankfurter Allee in Berlin Uncredited
• A ruined street in Berlin Bundesarchiv
• Colonel Abram Temnik commander of 1st Guards Tank Brigade of the 1st Guards Tank Army. Uncredited
• German soldiers in a defensive position on Kolonnenstrasse in Berlin. The man in the foreground is armed with an StG 44 assault rifle with a ZF-4 scope. Uncredited
• Head of the Soviet 5th Shock Army and Berlin's First Soviet Commandant - Nikolai Berzarin Uncredited
• Red Army troops survey the damage to Frankfurter Allee in Berlin Uncredited
• Soviet troops take up position in the roof of a building to advance through the city streets Uncredited
• Adolf Hitler's marriage certificate (notice that Eva Braun intially starting writing BRAUN before correcting to HITLER) Uncredited
• 203mm howitzer of the 1st Belorussian Front - apparantly attacking the Nazi Air Ministry on Wilhelmstrasse Uncredited
• Red Army soldiers and officers waiting by a wrecked T-34-85 tank in front of the Moltkebrücke bridge in Berlin Uncredited
• Destroyed vehicles in front of the Gestapo headquarters on Prince Albrecht Street in Berlin Bundesarchiv
• Burning building on Frankfurter Allee Uncredited
• Men of Chuikov’s Eighth Guards Army move cautiously through the smoke towards the Tiergarten Uncredited
• Red Army banner party on the Reichstag Uncredited
• The badly damaged Glienicke Brücke in 1945 Uncredited
• A Berlin woman having committed suicide on a bench - a T34 tank is visible on the other bank of the canal on Gitschinerstraße. Uncredited
• Red Army troops make their way across the Königsplatz in front of the Reichstag building Uncredited
• A Soviet assault group with a banner moves to the Reichstag Uncredited
• Inside the Reichstag - Taken from the first-floor balcony Uncredited
• A Soviet mortar team with a PM-43 fires at the Bulowstrasse train station in Berlin Uncredited
• Berliners meeting Soviet soldiers on Monbijou Strasse in central Berlin Uncredited
• Senior Lieutenant Nikitin reads the order of the day to his men on May 1st 1945 Uncredited
• Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, who would succeed Adolf Hitler as German Chancellor on April 30th 1945 - pictured with his six children Bundesarchiv
• The bodies of Joseph and Magda Goebbels, and their six children, following their discovery by Soviet troops in May 1945 Uncredited
• Volkssturm militias continue to maintain a defensive position near the Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin. Uncredited
• Much of the fighting on May 1st 1945 in the western areas of Berlin was conducted by Polish infantry units Uncredited
• A column of Soviet heavy IS-2 tanks on the streets of Berlin Uncredited
• Armored personnel carrier Sd.Kfz.250 surrounded by the bodies of soldiers of the SS Nordland division after a failed escape on Friedrichstrasse Uncredited
• The bodies of dead German soldiers on a pile of stones on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin Uncredited
• Soviet soldier, Ivan Kichigin, at the grave of his fellow soldier, Gregori Kozlov - May 1945, Berlin Uncredited
• White flags on Berlin houses after surrender Uncredited
• The raising of the Soviet flag on the Reichstag - captured by photographer Yevgeny Khaldei Unattributed
• An hour before the announcement of the surrender of the Berlin garrison Bundesarchiv
• Hitler's Reich Chancellery in Berlin - 1945 Uncredited
• Soviet tanks and soldiers at the Siegessäule in the Tiergarten Uncredited
• Soviet traffic controllers set a sign in front of a bridge at the entrance to Berlin Uncredited
• Civilians carrying their belongings pass along a street in ruined Berlin following the surrender of the city Uncredited