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HUFF FOUND the soldier and brought him back to the castle tower, where he joined Robertson and called out in Russian to the troops on the other side of the river. “If you’ve ever heard a Russian talk in a loud tone, it sounds like hollering. But after he started hollering, the Russians started coming down out of the trees on the other side of the river.
“There was a bridge across the Elbe there, and the Germans had blown it up near the end of the war. The highest Russian officer and a sergeant started swinging across on the girders of the bridge that were left* in the water. And we started crawling out to meet them,” Huff said. “That’s where we shook hands, out there on the girders.”
“We took the Russians back to our C.P. (command post) where they took some pictures. Our officer was all upset and wanted to know how we’d met them. We had never got the order that said we weren’t supposed to go outside the five-mile radius. But they kept us under guard until we could get to the Colonel’s headquarters. Then they called General Reinhardt.
“Finally they got through to Eisenhower. He was at what they called the ‘little red school house’ in Rheims, France. He said it was the best news he’d had in a long time and he only wished he could
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