If you have a few minutes (seven, to be precise) to spare, you should check out this fascinating HD footage shot on the streets of Berlin, Germany, in July of 1945.
It was filmed about two months after Germany signed an unconditional surrender to the Allied forces led by the USSR, Great Britain and the USA in May 1945 ending its role in World War II, and a month before Japan did the same in August of the same year.
Posted on the Berlin Channel on YouTube and digitally remastered into the higher quality you see here, it contains scenes from the destroyed city including the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag building, an air raid shelter and the lives of ordinary people on the road.
There’s also a similar video from Hamburg recorded during the same period. Watch both of them after the break.