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“TASS Frontline Herald”. Soviet Troops Meet Allied Troops

27 April 1945

State Archive of the Russian Federation

On April 25, a Soviet reconnaissance party encountered the soldiers of a US patrol force in the western part of the town of Torgau on the Leipzig – Frankfurt-an-der-Oder Highway to the west of the river Elbe. This moment marked the historical meeting of Soviet and Allied troops...

“TASS Frontline Herald”. Soviet Troops Meet Allied Troops. 27 April 1945. GARF