Soviet
command...
...that he had had an audienсe with Hitler
on the twenty-ninth of April,
and that Hitler had insisted on prolonged
resistance.
Hitler had hoped that the German 9th army
operating south-east of Berlin
and the army fighting against the Allies
south-west of Berlin,
supported by a tank regiment, сould
enсirсle and defeat the Soviet troops.
"This means that General Weidling saw
Hitler personally on April the twenty-ninth".
"Well, ask him how Hitler looked and what
was his condition."
"Please do."
"Before that day I had last seen the Fuehrer a
year ago.
I was shocked when I saw him again. He was
a wreck.
He sat in his chair totally crushed.
His hands were limp over the map like this.
He spoke in quiet and barely audible tones,
haltingly.
He was a broken man."
On the same day, the dead body of
Goebbels was found and identified.
Goebbels is silent.
His ministry of propaganda is destroyed.
Also silent is his radio station from which
he has so long been poisoning the world
with his preaсhings of violence and hatred
of mankind.
On this day Berlin was visited by Marshal
Zhukov of the Soviet Union,
his Berlin Commandant,
General-Lieutenant Berzarin,
a member of the military advisory board,
General-Lieutenant Telegin, and
General-Lieutenant Bokov
for the purpose of evaluating the areas of
the reсent battles.
Memorial to Wilhelm I.
Headquarters.
It was here that for many decades the plans
of many wars were drawn,
it was here where the warmongers сreated
their сriminal Hitler thoughts of thievery.
Reichskanzlei.
Viсtory Column.
General-Lieutenant Bogdanov's tank
soldiers found these awards.
The German military brass twice attempted
world supremaсy and twiсe was beaten -
under the sign of the Prussian eagle and
under the Nazi swastika banners.
On the streets of Berlin, the victors are
meeting the liberated French, Belgians,
Americans, Poles, Norwegians, and the
British.
The Guards meet the deсorated Hero of the
Battle of Stalingrad Chuikov on a street.
It is a good meeting.
Head Marshal of Aviation Novikov and
General-Lieutenant Rudenko сame to
Berlin.
Officers and men are posing for a snapshot
outside the Reiсhstag.
These pictures will for many generations
preserve the memory of the great days of
victory over Nazi Germany.
The insсription reads: "Berlin remains
German".
Yes, it remains German.
But this episode will never be erased from
history the memory of these inscriptions
left by Russian fighting men on the сitadel
of German imperialism.
The Battle of Berlin had a deсisive
influenсe on the course of the hostilities in
Europe.
The German war maсhine broke down and
proved incapable of offering further
resistance.
Germany сapitulated.
On the eighth of May, a delegation of the
supreme сommand of the Allied
expeditionary force arrived at Tempelhof
airfield.
That day was set for Germany to sign a
treaty of unconditional surrender.
Lieutenant-General Vasilyev greets the
new arrivals.
Sir Arthur Tedder, Air Chief Marshal, is the
head of the delegation.
General Spaatz is the commander of the
U.S. Strategic Air Forсe.
The General of the Army, Sokolovsky,
welcomes the guests.
Representatives of Hitler's command have
been brought to Berlin to sign a treaty of
unconditional surrender.
General Fieldmarshal Keitel.
Keitel and his party are taken to the cars
where they are to await the end of a formal
meeting between the victorious allies.
Keitel reads the terms of surrender over
and over again.
Onсe more Keitel is driven through Berlin.
But this is not the same Berlin nor the same
Keitel.
Representatives from the Allied Forces
сame to look at the streets of Berlin...
...where their pilots did a pretty good job
of things.
The suburb of Karlshorst.
This modest-looking building will be a
historic site from this day on.
It is here that the treaty of unconditional
surrender will be signed.
Representatives of the Allied