"Decisive Moment" -- Yevgeny Khaldei
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Soviet flag flies above the Reichstag building as Berlin smolders, May 2, 1945
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Josef Stalin (in white) sits among aides and advisers at Potsdam in July 1945
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Khaldei in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945
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The most senior Nazi officer to have faced trial after the war, Hermann Goering is flanked by U.S. military policemen in the dock at Nuremburg
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A couple, still wearing the yellow stars that identify them as Jews, after the liberation of Budapest by Russian troops in January 1945
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A woman flees Murmansk, in northern Russia, as the city is devastated following Hitler's order to burn it to the ground in late June 1942
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Mass suicides and killings preceded the Allied push into Vienna, 1945
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Berlin, May 1945
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Dmitry Shostakovich at the piano in Moscow, 1951