Some good berets in this incredible restored footage from May 1945.
Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov - commander-in-chief
of the Red Army - inspects the city on May 3, 1945 after the surrender of
Berlin. He is accompanied by Arthur Pieck - the later general director of the
East-German airline Interflug and son of the first president of the GDR,
Wilhelm Pieck. In addition, celebrations of the Red Army in front of the
Brandenburg Gate, the Victory Column and the Lustgarten are shown with rare
original sound.
Locations chronologically:
0:00 Reichtsag - 0:26 Brandenburg Gate - 1:34 Reich
Chancellery (dead Hitler lookalike and dead Goebbels family) - 3:15 Victory
Column - 4:06 Georgen Church (blown up in 1949) - 4:40 City Palace - Kaiser
Wilhelm National Monument (demolished 1949/1950) - 4:55 Lustgarten and Altes
Museum.
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