Parade of losers. KIEV. AUGUST 16, 1944
"MOSCOW to comrade STALIN I.V. ABOUT CONVOYING GERMAN POWS THROUGH MOUNTAINS. KIEV August 16 this year through the mountains. Kiev a convoy of a group of German prisoners of war was conducted in the amount of 36,918 people, including 549 officers. Of this number of prisoners was: captured by the troops of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian fronts 21,249 people; troops of the 1st and 2nd Belorussian fronts 7,927 people; troops of the 1st Baltic Front 2700 people, and the remaining 5042 people. were sent from the NKVD camps. Columns of prisoners of war passed through the streets of the mountains. Kiev for five hours - from 10 a.m. to 15 p.m. The total length of the route through the city from the place of concentration to the place of loading into the trains was 21 kilometers. During the movement of prisoners of war, all the streets, windows and balconies of buildings were filled with local residents. During the appearance on the streets of columns of prisoners of war, along the ro...