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-squareCowbee [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoWonder what the world would look like today if Germany had been thoroughly purged of Nazism, rather than a slap on the wrists.
minus-squareDiva (she/her)@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIt would have been really funny if they had given like Austria or half of Germany to be “Israel” on top of actually removing the Nazis
minus-squareCowbee [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoFunny and probably would have dramatically changed the world stage as it exists today.
Wonder what the world would look like today if Germany had been thoroughly purged of Nazism, rather than a slap on the wrists.
It would have been really funny if they had given like Austria or half of Germany to be “Israel” on top of actually removing the Nazis
Funny and probably would have dramatically changed the world stage as it exists today.