From Wikipedia, under the heading
"German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union"
The mother of a prisoner thanks Konrad Adenauer upon his return from Moscow on
September 14, 1955. Adenauer had succeeded in concluding negotiations for the
release to Germany, by the end of that year, of 15,000 German civilians and
prisoners of war.
Approximately three million German prisoners of war were captured by the Soviet
Union during World War II, most of them during the great advances of the Red
Armyin the last year of the war. The POWs were employed as forced labor in the
Soviet wartime economy and post war reconstruction. By 1950 almost all had been
released. In 1956 [1] the last surviving German POW returned home from the
USSR. According to Soviet records 381,067 German Wehrmacht POWs died in NKVD
camps (356,700 German nationals and 24,367 from other nations).[2][3]German
historian Rüdiger Overmans maintains that it seems entirely plausible, while
not provable, that one million died in Soviet custody. He believes that among
those reported as missing were men who actually died as POWs.[4][5]
73,
Richard Freedland
Miami
Sent from my iPad.
On Dec 19, 2016, at 12:40 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
OK RR, Here's another challenge to your falsehoods.
I don't give a hoot about you're mental health, you've walked down that road
for many miles before you got to the point where you are now, but continuing
to spout falsehoods is another matter.
Please respond to JJ.
73
DR
On Dec 19, 2016 12:04 AM, "John J. Miller" <seaspark@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I saw it here !
"No German POWs survived being Russian prisoners."
Untrue.
I belong to a German club in NJ and personally knew several men who survived
camps in Siberia. One used to do my taxes. Another lost all of his teeth
there but survived; the list goes on. I knew a woman who lived in Hamburg ,
Germany and went every day to see the trains bringing in repatriated German
prisoners of the Russians, she had a picture of her son, (Who did not
return), she actually met POWs who knew her son and told her how he died.
Actually they told me that the Russian guards were not so bad and they
actually taught each other their languages, the Russian soldiers were not
much better off than the prisoners. They were not cruel like the Japs.,
except for the Russian female soldiers, they were quite bad.
I know a man whose father was a prisoner in Russia and he did not survive
the camp.
Where do you get such stuff ?
73
JJ Miller
