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French mechanic at Siemens factory in Berlin, 1943
Source: Wikimedia Commons

VE (Victory) Day Drive
May 8 1945
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Source: Wikimedia Commons / Andrzej Jucewicz; Włodzimierz Stępiński (1968) Chwała Olimpijczykom 1939-1945, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo "Sport i Turystyka", pp. 108.

The iconic "Raising a flag over the Reichstag" photo by Yevgeny Khaldei.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

A headline in the U.S. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes announcing Hitler's death, 2 May 1945
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Capture of Berlin by the Red Army 16 April – 2 May 1945.

Soviet fighter planes over the Reichstag.

Photo, Yevgeny Khaldei, April 1945. Planes added in photo montage.

Surrender in Reims, 7 May 1945
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Edition of the Aachener Nachrichten of May 8, 1945 in the new Aachen City Museum "Centre Charlemagne". The Aachener Nachrichten was the first free paper - without Nazi propaganda - to report the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht on May 8, 1945. It was one of two newspapers in Germany that reported on that day.

Source: Wikimedia Commons/ACBahn

Signature of the act of surrender in the Soviet headquarters in Berlin-Karlshorst on 8 May 1945.

Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel signing the document.

Source: East News

World War II / End of the War / Victory Parade of the Soviet Army, the Banner of Victory returning to Moscow,
Berlin, 20 May 1945.

Colonel General Nikolai E. Berzarin, Commander of Berlin, receives the report of the troops assembled in front of the Raichstag building.

Photo (Yevgeny Khaldei).

Zweiter Weltkrieg, Schlacht um Berlin, 16. April bis 2. Mai 1945. ‚Berlin – das Ende‘. Foto von Jewgeni Chaldei, 1945. Ein lächelnder russischer Soldat hält sein Souvenir: den Kopf einer Statue von Adolf Hitler. Foto von Jewgeni Chaldei. (BSLOC_2013-12_28)

Berlin / End of the War 1945:
Berlin under Soviet military administration.

The Soviet military policewoman Marina Shalova.

Photo, 1 May 1945 (Yevgeny Khaldei).