The parade of German prisoners of war took place on July 17, 1944, demonstrating to the Soviet people, as well as to the allies of the USSR, who did not believe in the successes of the Red Army, the results of the defeat of German troops in Belarus.
About 57,000 German prisoners of war – the soldiers and officers (including 19 generals) of the Wehrmacht, mostly captured in Belarus by the troops of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Belorussian fronts of the Red Army – marched along the Garden Ring and other streets of Moscow.
Watering machines drove behind a convoy of German prisoners of war, symbolically washing the Nazi mud from the Soviet asphalt.
Location: Moscow, USSR
Photo time: July 17, 1944
Photo by: Naum Granovsky