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on "Elbe Day".]] The same day, another patrol under Second Lieutenant William Robertson with Frank Huff , James McDonnell and Paul Staub met Soviet Lieutenant Alexander Silvashko with some soldiers on the destroyed Elbe bridge of Torgau On April 26 , the commanders of the 69th Infantry Division of the First Army and the Soviet 58th Guards Division of the 5th Guards Army met at Torgau, southwest of Berlin . Arrangements were made for the formal ''"Handshake of Torgau"'' between Robertson and Silvashko in front of photographers the following day ''(pictured)''. Statements were released simultaneously in London , Moscow , and Washington that evening, reaffirming the determination of the three Allied powers to complete the destruction of the Third Reich . POPULAR CULTURE
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