Escorting German prisoners through Moscow (1944)

Moscow.

July 17, 1944. The Kremlin.

The roadway is blocked by police cars and motorcycles.

The Moscow Hippodrome is filled with German prisoners of war.

Privates are sitting on the ground.

Generals are lined up separately.

Close-ups of captured generals.

The street is filled with people.

Close-ups of Muscovites' faces.

Captured generals walk at the head of the column.

Privates are lined up for escort.

The columns have begun to move.

The square in front of the Belorussky Railway Station.

Captured officers and soldiers are walking along the Leningradskoye Shosse.

Muscovites look at the prisoners.

Aerial shot - a column of prisoners and Muscovites on both sides of the highway.

A column of prisoners walks across the Crimean Bridge.

The column is being escorted by NKVD troops.

Shots of the column alternate with shots of people watching the escort along the sides of the road, on balconies, in windows, on parapets and fences.

Komsomolskaya Square.

Water trucks wash the Garden Ring after columns of German prisoners pass.

The prisoners are locked in a railway carriage.

The train departs.

A view of Theater Square from the Bolshoi Theater's quadriga.