Footage of the Red Army restored with ifilmrestoration.com in 3K
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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.
The archive material is partly used in the 2nd part of the documentary "Hitler over Berlin", which will be published soon on this channel.