



Destruction in the cities after the Germans retreated: the remains of a railway bridge, ruins of houses, fires, a gallows.
Elderly people leaf through books burned in the fire.
Refugees return to the cities, carrying things on horse- and cow-drawn carts, on handcarts; ruins of houses, fires, smoke over the city.




People are putting out burning grain.
An old woman is stoking the surviving stove, crying in the ruins of her house.