TIL over 500'000 German prisoners of war died in forced labour camps, after the German surrender, while detained in the Soviet Union. With the latest survivors only being released a decade later. - Lemmy
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From wikipedia [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union]: > 3,060,000 German military personnel were taken prisoner by the USSR and that 1,094,250 died in captivity (549,360 from 1941 to April 1945; 542,911 from May 1945 to June 1950 and 1,979 from July 1950 to 1955).[4] [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union#cite_note-4]

3,060,000 German military personnel were taken prisoner by the USSR and that 1,094,250 died in captivity (549,360 from 1941 to April 1945; 542,911 from May 1945 to June 1950 and 1,979 from July 1950 to 1955)

lemmitor "My innocent Aryan warriors"

Wehrmacht was not a Nazi organisation. Members were free to join the party but they were not under any obligation. The SS was an explicitly Nazi army but completely separate from the Wehrmacht.

Very cool clean Wehrmacht myth

Good to know world isnt a leftist echo chamber, you can share nazi propaganda too

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Not to mention there wasn't any reason to take Germans alive towards the end of the battle. The soviets had completely encircled the city. Any Germans still there had nothing to bargain with. It's total war, so why would you bargain with an enemy you know won't give you the same courtesy? The Germans were on the run and their house of cards was falling.