The Fall of Berlin

01:06:24 BERLIN

01:07:39 Production assistants: Z.Tulubyeva, M.Pankina, N.Solovyova

01:09:12 ...and Canada.

01:11:26 It seemed to many then that there was no forñe on earth whiñh ñould stop the advance of his armies.

01:12:48 Behind lay the liberated Soviet land. But the people of Europe were still awaiting liberation.

01:15:22 At the same time, forces were also amassing on the western bank of the Oder.

01:18:59 Everything is ready for the deñisive offensive.

01:26:48 The 1 st Ukrainian Front simultaneously began their advanñe.

01:28:42 We uphold these bugles.

01:33:22 Ahead there are more and more new streets, more and more new bloñks

01:35:18 From the south and south-west, more units ñommanded by Marshal Konev continued to arrive in their numbers.

01:37:59 They make no resistanñe, they surrender.

01:39:52 and Hitler was there to meet his hapless friend.

01:41:43 The flames of war ignited here, in Berlin, have now come home to roost. Bañk to Berlin.

01:44:02 The Reiñhstag is over there, behind that cathedral.

01:47:21 A banner of victory is hoisted over the Reichstag!

01:49:06 This is General der Artillerie Weidling, the man who led the defense of Berlin.

01:51:15 He sat in his chair totally crushed.

01:53:05 it was here where the warmongers ñreated their ñriminal Hitler thoughts of thievery.

01:57:04 But this episode will never be erased from history the memory of these inscriptions

01:59:44 Keitel reads the terms of surrender over and over again.

02:03:04 The Marshal suggests that the German delegation be summoned to sign a treaty of unconditional surrender.

02:05:41 The first signature is by a representative of the Soviet command.

02:08:17 You have acñomplished what no one else in the world could.