00:00At the time of surrender, the Red Army soldiers were well nourished, full of vigor,
00:04and dressed in fine winter uniforms. The German soldiers, ragged in thin greatcoats over threadbare
00:10uniforms as thin as skeletons, presented emaciated figures exhausted half to death
00:16with sunken features. Unwashed with unkempt beards, they wore comical-looking makeshift
00:22snow boots and were wrapped in towels and women's headscarves. These men were exhausted, ill,
00:28wounded, and starving after months of brutal combat and encirclement.
00:33Their ordeal, however, was far from over.
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