FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoTIL 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.message-squaremessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareTIL 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.FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square104fedilinkfile-text
From wikipedia: 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]
minus-squaremojofrododojo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoyeah, well… on the one hand, you can look at it as a response to what happened during the war, with RU losing 20+ million. On the other hand, you could consider: stalin killed and gulag’d so many of his own people, what does anyone expect him to do to POWs? ain’t right. but you can’t say it was exactly unexpected.
yeah, well… on the one hand, you can look at it as a response to what happened during the war, with RU losing 20+ million.
On the other hand, you could consider: stalin killed and gulag’d so many of his own people, what does anyone expect him to do to POWs?
ain’t right. but you can’t say it was exactly unexpected.