POWs at border crossing at Elbe River

(LIB 7089) "France Returns," Dessau, Germany, June 7, 1945. SEQ: US, French, and Russian officers question war prisoners who claim the right to cross the Elbe into US territory. Two young Frenchmen, formerly SS men, are questioned. Their papers laid out on a table are examined and one of them is taken away. MCUs, ex-political prisoners and French political deportees are questioned. LS, MS, ex-prisoners enter and leave gate at interrogation area. An American MP guards the gate.