The permanent exhibition on the upper floor documents the criminal German warfare and occupation as well as Soviet society during the war.

It shows the war from the perspective of both the German and the Soviet actors. In addition to texts, historical photos, everyday objects and written documents, the exhibition presents people who became victims or perpetrators.

Currently without end date

Open-air exhibition in the museum garden on the history of the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht to the four victorious powers of the Soviet Union, USA, Great Britain and France on 8 May 1945 in Berlin-Karlshorst.

Photo correspondents from the various Soviet republics captured the advance of the Red Army in pictures. In the exhibition, more than 50 photographs document this route at different sections of the front – from Karelia via Estonia and Lithuania, Belarus and the Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Serbia, East Prussia, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia to the east of the German Reich. They show destruction and human suffering, the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp liberated by the Red Army, the march of German prisoners of war through Moscow, as well as the successive ends of the war in Bucharest, Belgrade, Katowice, Budapest, Königsberg and Danzig.

The photographs of the surrender of the Wehrmacht in Berlin-Karlshorst, the victory celebrations in Leningrad and Prague and the meeting of American and Soviet soldiers and officers mark the end of the Second World War in Europe in the exhibition.