Chris Boonzaier Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 After the movie "Der untergang" and a host of books... this is an interesting topic.... How about seeing some stuff relating to Berlin 1945-1950? Russian, German, Allied HQ. Berlin Airlift etc. etc. etc.. I am sure there is some good material in our hands... (None in mine though :-(
ehrentitle Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 After the movie "Der untergang" and a host of books... this is an interesting topic....How about seeing some stuff relating to Berlin 1945-1950? Russian, German, Allied HQ. Berlin Airlift etc. etc. etc..I am sure there is some good material in our hands...(None in mine though :-(Chris - I have a British anti-looting poster from Berlin in the late 1940s. I picked it up at a Berlin flea market in the 80s. Unfortunately it's too big to scan. Kevin
deptfordboy Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 Good idea! I have some nice pic's of Brits relaxing as part of the 'occupying forces', will try and post them up when I get a chance. Gilbert
ehrentitle Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 (edited) Here is a photo showing Soviet soldiers sitting at the Bismarck memorial in the Tieergarten Berlin in 1946 - Edited February 23, 2007 by ehrentitle
Bryan Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 Nice picture ehrentitle!I was lucky enough to find those pictures last year from Berlin after the war.Brandenburg Gate
Bryan Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 I am not sure if this is the Old Reichskanzlei.
Paul R Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 Thanks for sharing these photos!! Great find!
Bryan Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 I have found this picture in a Russian fleemarket in Moscow last summer. I later sold this picture on eBay. I'm sorry I didn't find the picture without the watermarks.This is a private picture made in the garden of the Neue Reichskanzlei.
Robin Lumsden Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 I got this from the son of the man who removed it from Hitler's chancellery in mid-1945.Who knows what it is............?
Robin Lumsden Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 Another view.Note the engraving................dedicated to Hitler on his 50th birthday.
Robin Lumsden Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 Another little thing picked up by a British medic in Spandau in 1946......................and sold by him to me 50-odd years later. He said his kids didn't want it !!!!!!!
Christophe Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 A nice postcard from the 40'sBryan,Your photos are fantastic!!! Excellent find!!! Cheers.Ch.
Christophe Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 I am not sure if this is the Old Reichskanzlei. Bryan,Looks like the Propaganda Ministry.Ch.
Christophe Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 Here is a pic of the building, with the red cross. The Chancellery is on the right.Ch.
Bryan Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 Good eye Christophe!Thanks for the information.
Chris Boonzaier Posted February 24, 2007 Author Posted February 24, 2007 How about some of those Russian medal groups !!! You are allowed to post stuff you have already posted elswhere here on the themes threads..
Gerd Becker Posted February 24, 2007 Posted February 24, 2007 Here you go, Chris.Group to Baktybai Zholmukanov, born 1926 and served with the 365 Reserve Rifle Regiment and the 922nd Rifle Regiment/250th Rifle Division/35th Rifle Corps/3rd Army/1st Belorussian Front during the Berlin-Campaign.Here is the citation to his Military Merit Medal for the Berlin Campaign:"Military order to 922nd Infantry Red Banner Regiment of 250th Infantry Bobrujsk Red Banner and order of Suvorov Division # 0114/N May 16, 1945 Active ArmyOn behalf of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics the following people awarded with:---Military Merit Medal---...2. Telephone operator of the 1st mortar company, private Zhulmukanov Boris for his actions displayed in battles during eliminating of surrendered German troops south-eastern to Berlin on April 25, 1945. When Germans started a counter attack near important highway Frankfurt-Berlin, private Zhulmukanov provided constant phone connection with the observation point. Despite heavy enemy artillery and mortar fire he personally fixed 7 cuts of the phone line. Born in 1926, Kazakh, Youth Communist League member, in Red Army since 22 November 1944, recruited from Chapaevsky District Military Office of Western Kazakhstan Region. Home address: Western Kazakhstan Region, Chapaevsky District, Inbeksky village community, collective-farm (kolkhoz) Intaly."Hope, you like it.Gerd
Bryan Posted February 26, 2007 Posted February 26, 2007 Here are my 3 documented groups related to the capture of Berlin.Ivan Grigorievitch Strunkovhttp://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1552...mp;#entry151812Vladimir Tschibulsky Kuzmyhttp://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7161&hl=Anton Mikhailovitch Tretiakhttp://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1544...mp;#entry151038And a single documented Berlin medal in my collection
Chris Boonzaier Posted March 6, 2007 Author Posted March 6, 2007 Nice stuff... but we want MORE!!!!!!!!All these folks on the forum and so little berlin related !!!!!
Bryan Posted April 29, 2007 Posted April 29, 2007 Another Berlin group in my collectionPavel Ignatevitch Olefirenkohttp://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1781...mp;#entry172323
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