Repatriation of Allied and Soviet Prisoners and Sending Them Home

Germany, the city of Magdeburg, May 24, 1945. Soviet and foreign citizens freed from German captivity are crossing the pontoon bridge across the Elbe. View of the damaged buildings of the city. Near the bridge is a poster with the NDP: "ROOSEVELD-STALIN BRIDGE". A column of freed women is passing by. Collection point. People get into trucks. Commander of the 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General Vladimir Yakovlevich Kolpakchi and Lieutenant General Ivan Ivanovich Varfolomeev at the pontoon bridge; [Major Shabelsky] is present. American Colonel Johnson among the representatives of the Soviet command. Lieutenant General I.I. Varfolomeev treats Colonel Johnson to a cigarette from a cigarette case. View of a building damaged by military operations with a portrait of the Soviet leader I.V. Stalin on the wall and a poster with the NDP: "GLORY TO THE GREAT STALIN!"

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