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]

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    8 days ago

    The source of your quoted text is from Erich Maschke, a literal dyed-in-the-wool Nazi.
    He joined the SA in 1933, the Nazi party in 1937, and was in charge of training the Wehrmacht general staff in Poland during WW2. He was publically in favor of German colonization and domination of the “Eastern territory”.

    So allow me to disregard his opinion on the treatment of German POWs by those he wished to have eradicated.

    – regards, a German, whose grandfather lost a leg in a Russian POW camp and returned as an alcoholic who beat his wife and kids daily.