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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Raising the Soviet Flag over the Reichstag, Berlin
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Raising the Soviet Flag over the Reichstag, Berlin

Artist Yevgeny Khaldei (Russian, 1917 - 1997)
Date1945, printed later
Made/manufacturedBerlin, Germany
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet/Image size: 10 3/4 × 8 1/4 in. (27.3 × 21 cm)
Mat size: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Robert and Elizabeth Sanchez
Object number2019.2
Collections
DescriptionDepicts monumental moment when Russian troops entered Berlin at the fall of the Third Reich after years of brutal fighting between Russia and Germany.

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