In spring 1945, Berlin lay in ruins across large areas following years of Allied air raids and the concluding Soviet urban battle (April–May 1945). This photograph belongs to the final section of Lieb’s film, which documents the situation in the defeated capital of the Reich after the advance through France and Germany. Lieb’s private 16-mm Kodachrome camera provides here one of the rare color documentations of destroyed Berlin, which is otherwise preserved almost exclusively in black and white. The landscape of ruins marks at the same time the endpoint of the journey narrated in the film, from invasion preparations in England to the end of the war in Germany.