[reg45]

He is smiling because he has made it to the Americans without being killed.

[Riley]

I’ve read that the Americans sometimes repatriated these guys to the Soviets, if the Russians were close by. I have a book by a Gebirgsjaeger (mountain troops) sniper who was captured by Americans who were going to hand the group over. He escaped, ditched his uniform and just went home.

[Memphis Moe]

Fleeing the Russians. Lot's of impressive mechanized equipment held by the Germans; I see why Patton wanted to resupply them and fight the Russians with two armies: the American and the German.

Czech countryside in the spring. Saw a flowering tree in the footage. The land would fall under enslavement by Soviet communist totalitarian control for over 40 years.