Liberated PoWs of Stalag #6 Celebrate May Day 1945
Liberated Russian prisoners line up in Stalag VI-A PoW camp square, Hemer, Germany, some w/ Soviet flags. Banner in English & Russian ‘Long Live the American Army which liberated us from Nazi captivity’. Portrait of Stalin, Truman & Churchill. CUs PoWs. View across main square from podium where officials making speeches; prisoners applaud & remove hats. Soviet insignia & portrait of Lenin on wall. Camp scenes and parade - US & Soviet generals & troops w/ flags march past - military band - liberated male & female prisoners? Relief supplies unloaded - CU crates marked ‘US Army Field Rations’ - Chesterfield cigarettes.
WWII. Liberation.
Liberated PoWs of Stalag #6 Celebrate May Day 1945 Liberated Russian prisoners line up in Stalag VI-A PoW camp square, Hemer, Germany, some w/ Soviet flags. Banner in English & Russian ‘Long Live the American Army which liberated us from Nazi captivity’. Portrait of Stalin, Truman & Churchill. CUs PoWs. View across main square from podium where officials making speeches; prisoners applaud & remove hats. Soviet insignia & portrait of Lenin on wall. Camp scenes and parade - US & Soviet generals & troops w/ flags march past - military band - liberated male & female prisoners? Relief supplies unloaded - CU crates marked ‘US Army Field Rations’ - Chesterfield cigarettes. WWII. Liberation.