Battle of berlin 1945

Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945. Showing Meliton Kantaria and Mikhail Yegorov raising the flag of the Soviet Union atop the Reichstag building.

We tend to forget how horrific World War II was for the Soviet Union. Here’s a fascinating collection of Soviet War paintings.

1945-05 Red Army soldiers sit on the ruins of the German Reich Chancellery.

New arrivals in the overcrowded Lódz ghetto. October, 1940.

Gendarmenmarkt.. 1945

Rare pictures from the Battle of Berlin in April 1945.

The Battle of Stalingrad. Aug 23, 1942 to Feb 2, 1943 - Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.

The poet and Red Army officer Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky during the liberation of Berlin, May 2, 1945.

Panzergrenadiers of the 11th SS Nordland division entrenched in the Courland pocket. The division would be evacuated to Germany in early 1945 and meet its end in the Battle of Berlin.

A well known photo of a destroyed SdKfz 250 belonging to Nordland in Berlin 1945, it is belived to be the command vehicle of SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans-Gösta Pehrsson, commander of the so called Schwedenzug, the "Sweden Platoon", and the dead driver SS-Unterscharführer Ragnar Johansson.