Meeting of Red Army and Wehrmacht units in the Brest region (1939)

A meeting of Red Army and Wehrmacht soldiers near Brest in September 1939. German officers converse with Red Army commanders and political officers.

A Red Army colonel and a Wehrmacht officer read a German leaflet with an appeal to the Red Army.

The leaflet's text, greeting the Red Army, is in Russian.

A plaque on a wire marks the German demarcation line.

Red Army commanders and German officers discuss cooperation in a room of the White Palace.

A view of the mansion.

Red Army political officers and Wehrmacht officers emerge from the mansion and board the cars.

The cars depart from the White Palace.

General Guderian and Brigade Commander Krivoshein greet each other before the ceremony of handing over Brest to Red Army representatives, with Moritz von Wiktorin, commander of the 2nd Motorized Division, standing nearby.

German motorized units parade past representatives of the Soviet and German command before leaving Brest.

Guderian and Krivoshein salute the troops.

Soviet tank unit commanders during the parade (panorama).

Soviet tanks move along a Brest street, Krivoshein and Guderian during the parade.

German and Soviet tank unit commanders in formation (panorama).

Guderian's face.

Brest residents salute Soviet tank crews.

Panorama of the Danzig port.

German field gun crews fire at the enemy.