Soviet officer talks to lilberated Belgian soldiers.

Soviet officer talks to lilberated Belgian soldiers. A Russian officer (left, wearing fur cap) talks with Belgian soldiers who were liberated from German prison camps by the Red Army drive in East Prussia. As Soviet forces tightened the trap around the enemy in EastPrussia in early March 1945, almost 10,000 Allied fighting men who had been freed by the Russians from German prison camps were awaiting repatriation at the Black Sea port of Odessa. Included in a group of 3,413 Allied soldiers who had already sailed to their homeland were 227 American officers and 969 men, 1,391 English soldiers and officers and 826 French citizens. The latter group sailed aboard transports, one of which was a British ship that had brought hundreds of Soviet citizens to Odessa from the United Kingdom after Allied forces had freed them from enemy concentration camps in the west. This is a radiophoto sent from Moscow to the U.S.