yevgeny khaldei’s wartime photographs

The victory flag over the Reichstag. May, 1945.

The Victory Parade in Moscow. Fascist flags near the Mausoleum. June 24, 1945.

Evgeny Dolmatovsky near the Brandenburg Gate. A souvenir of the victory. May 2, 1945.

Sniper Lisa Mironova, Novorossiysk, 1943.

"Vickers, " The Northern Fleet, 1943.

Sevastopol, a sailors' trophy.

JAK-3 over the Sapun Mountain in Sevastopol, May, 1944.

Yevgeny Khaldei’s Wartime Photographs

The first day of the war. Moscow, June 22, 1941. October 25 Street, 12.00. Citizens listen to V. Molotov about the beginning of the war.

Evgeny Khaldei is one of the most famous Soviet photographers, a reporter of the TASS news in pictures, he represented its

editorial staff during the Great Patriotic War. All 1,418 days he and his "Leica" went from Murmansk to Berlin. One of his most popular

photos is "The Raising of the victory flag over the Reichstag".

Photos of Evgeny Khaldei were among evidences at the Nuremberg trials, especially those made in Sevastopol. After the war photographer fell out of favour, and despite the fact that after Stalin's death, he again gained access to the newspaper pages, until 1970 he could not organize his photo exhibition in the Soviet

Union because of oppressions of the Soviet leaders.

The Subarctic, deer Yasha, 1941.

Marines, the Subarctic, 1941.

The soldiers' work. Polar regions, 1941.

Marines, Sevastopol. May, 1944.

Captured, Sevastopol. May, 1944.

Sevastopol, May, 1944.

Sevastopol, May, 1944.

Novorossiysk, spring, 1943.

Sevastopol, May, 1944.

The Black Sea. A watchman.

The liberation of Kerch, 1943.

A pilot, Sevastopol. May, 1944.

A pilot-bombardier in the sky over Sevastopol, May, 1944.

A salute in liberated Sevastopol, May, 1944.

A ship's boy, Sevastopol, 1944.

Children are playing in ruined Sevastopol, first years after the war.

Children are playing in ruined Sevastopol, first years after the war.

Children are playing in ruined Sevastopol, first years after the war.

The Quarantine bay. May, 1944.

The first Ukrainian front.

Liberators. Sevastopol, May, 1944.

Budapest, 1945

Jewish Couple, Budapest, 1945

Vienna, 1945.

Vienna, 1945.

Vienna, 1945.

Vienna, 1945.

Vienna, 1945.

Berlin, 1945.

Berlin, 1945.

The Victory Parade in Moscow. Fascist flags near the Mausoleum. June 24, 1945.

The Victory Parade in Moscow. Fascist flags near the Mausoleum. June 24, 1945.

The Victory Parade in Moscow. Fascist flags near the Mausoleum. June 24, 1945.

Postdam Conference, Churchil, Turman, Stalin, 1945

Potsdam- Churchill, Truman and Stalin. June, 1945.

Potsdam. The Big Three - Churchill, Truman and Stalin. June, 1945.

Three Flags of Yevgeny Khaldei

The first flag was raised next to the Nazi Eagle at the Templehof Airport.

The second flag was hoisted next to the destroyed Quadriga on the Brandenburg Gate.

The raising of the third flag became the iconic image of Nazi Germany’s final defeat. Note two watches on the soldier supporting the flag-bearer. Despite being the primary scene of the Soviet airstrikes and the symbolic flag raising, the Reichstag was a mere symbol. It had remained unused since the Fire of 1933.

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Herman Goering at Nuremberg (1946) by Yevgeny Khaldei

Yevgeny Khaldei in 1945 he was the Soviets’ frontline photographer in the International Miltary Tribunals in

Nuremberg. Nuremberg was a difficult assignment many photojournalists.

Access to the courtroom was tightly governed under rules drafted by the Americans. Three glass enclosures were

distributed along the edges of the room, and photographers were confined to them, two-by-two, and given only three minutes to shoot. One enclosure faced the dock, another faced the justices, and the third faced the those who had

gathered to observe the proceedings. Khaldei finally circumvented the restriction by bribing an

assistant to one of the Soviet justices with a bottle of gin in exchange for a better seat – the seat that yielded one of the most interesting photographs of Hermann Göring and the

Trials.

Hermann Goering was extremely angry that the soldiers allowed a Russian (let alone a Jew) to photograph him.

Dressed in his Soviet naval uniform (which further annoyed Goering) Khaldei pursued Goering aggressively: “I took lots of pictures of Göring because I thought, ‘Hitler is dead.’ That makes Göring public enemy number one. I took pains to be

near him at all times.” With the help of an American MP and his baton, Goering was forced to face Khaldei’s lens, and even to have his

picture taken with him. Towards the end of the trial, before the sentencing, Khaldei had his photo taken standing near Göring by a colleague. With the exception of his mother,

Khaldei’s entire family had been slaughtered by the Germans in 1941.

Yevgeny Khaldei, center, holds his camera in front of the ruins of the Brandenburg Gate.

Yevgeny Khaldei, Reichstag, May 1945.

Yevgeny Khaldei, Moscow, June 24, 1945.

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