On this Day - German and Soviet units convened for a joint parade in the Polish city of #Brest. Here, the two commanders - General Heinz Guderian and Brigadier-General Semyon Krivoshein - share a joke on the reviewing stand. #Poland1939 #NaziSoviet
Here a Soviet T-26 tank passes a waiting Wehrmacht motorcycle reconnaissance unit. Friendly cooperation between the two allies. #NaziSoviet
Wehrmacht and Red Army troops mingled to watch the parade. #Brest #Poland1939
Conversation was sometimes stilted, but common ground could be found in the universal language of cigarettes. #NaziSoviet #Poland1939
Guderian and Krivoshein conversed in French. Guderian would boast about German hardware; Krivoshein would reply "We have better". #Poland1939
Krivoshein later claimed to have taken part in the parade only reluctantly.
Interviewed by German journalists on the day, however, he raised a toast to #Hitler and #Stalin and invited the journalists to visit him "after the victory over capitalist England". #NaziSoviet
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