Berlin. April 1945. Apocalypse. Hell on Earth. This savage battle on this ancient cultured city is perhaps one of the most brutal battles in history. No quarters were given. An aggressive hatred filled Russian army, large in number with lots of tanks and guns. Facing it was a shattered remains of a once proud army.
The Battle of Berlin is as important for its fierce fighting as for the great suffering of the German people. Hell on Earth. That was Berlin. In April-May 1945.
Early April, 1945. The Russians were getting closer to Berlin. A battery of Soviet 122-mm howitzers (model 1938 M-30) firing on Berlin. In April 1945
A dead Volkssturm volunteer lies dead on the street of Berlin.
A Russian officer checks the documents of captured German soldiers. Berlin. April 1945.
Nazi Germany was fighting with boys in the last days. This boy was given the Iron Cross.
Perhaps the last photograph of Hitler. Seen with his officers days before he died.
VIDEO: BERLIN 1945 APRIL
VIDEO: BERLIN 1945 APRIL
This German woman killed herself. Berlin April 1945. Was it the fear and anticipation? Or had she suffered and could not take it anymore?
Destroyed German tanks on the outskirts of Berlin
A huge Russian 152 mm ML-20 gun batters Berlin
The Russians hammered Berlin with this B-4 heavy artillery
Russians cleaning up building-by-building in Berlin of German resistance
These kids from Hitler Youth were sent to defend Berlin in the last stages!
One of the last images taken of Hitler. He gloomily inspects the damage to the Fuhrerbunker from the Russian artillery with Chief GruppenFuhrer Schaub, who was his companion from early days
A Russian soldier pulls out a German from a manhole
A Russian peers cautiously around the bridge on River Spree. May 1, 2011. A fellow soldier lies dead nearby.
Top German generals who stayed alive and surrendered
A dead German soldier lies amongst the graveyard of German military vehicles
German POW, broken men, and civilians get medical attention in the open near Brandenberg gate. April 1945, Berlin.
German people watch helplessly as Soviet T-24-76 tanks trundle on the streets of Berlin
A German couple walk past a ACS Stug in Berlin.
Sweet revenge. Polish soldiers in Berlin.
A Russian 120mm gun batter Berlin. April 1945
Russians flush out the Subway of the last Germans resisting. April 26, 1945. Frankfurter Allee 113 station.
Russians rush past a dead German. April 1945. Berlin
Soviet troops rush the German Reichstag. End April, 1945
A Russian SU 76 Self-propelled gun fires in a Berlin street fight. April 1945
Column of Soviet ISU-122 self-propelled guns on the streets of Berlin. In May 1945.
A Russian soldier, tired from the fighting, snatches some sleep. Beside him is a dead German soldier. April 1945. Berlin
May 2, 1945. Russians on the streets of a broken Berlin
After the fighting. A shattered Reichstag. In the foreground, is a German Flak 18 88 mm gun
May 2, 1945. A building burns in Berlin
German POW
More German POW
Taken prisoner, chief of medical service in Berlin, Major-General Carl Emil Wrobel. May 2, 1945
Dead German soldier near the Brandenburg Gate
Column of German POW on the street of Berlin
An ACS Jagdpanther 4 on the Glienicker Bruecke
A Stug near the Ludwig Kirch Platz
A broken 88 mm gun at Potsdamer Platz
Broken German military vehicles at Unter den Linden
A broken Luftwaffe plane at Berlin's Wunstorf Airport
A Panther near the Dankeskirche
The war was over. German POW walk silently on the street of Berlin. May 2, 1945
A Russian tank is parked near the Brandenburg Gate. Also seen is American photographer Robert Carmen. May 2, 1945
Russians enjoy a boat ride past a broken city
Russian soldiers take a tram ride in Berlin
Russians bury their dead comrades
Horses pull a heavy Russian gun as the Reichstag appears ghostly
