The first Soviet troops in Berlin during World War II in 1945

Montage Soviet artillery guns fire in Berlin street during Battle of Berlin in World War II / tanks and infantry in Berlin street with destroyed buildings around / tank stands in rubble, fires; destroyed buildings stand at side and background / Soviet soldiers run through rubble in street, toward smoke behind collapsed building / montage Soviet soldiers in Berlin streets / WS building burns / CU flames pour out of windows of upper floors of building as inside burns / montage German soldier POWs file past in line, with hands on heads; some carry items / CU Adolf Hitler speaks emphatically / black / end credits / from Greatest Headlines of the Century series