FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-29 days 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-29 days 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-squareArelin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoWild that they let some nazis survive. Hope they at least put them to good use for labor as reparations. In the capitalist countries they were given cushy leadership positions instead lmao as you’d expect
Wild that they let some nazis survive. Hope they at least put them to good use for labor as reparations.
In the capitalist countries they were given cushy leadership positions instead lmao as you’d expect