RR
You cry for the Soviet miss treatment of German POWs, General Eisenhower's miss
treatment
of German POWs, free speech for the 87 year old German woman sent to jail for
violating the
law denying the Holocaust BUT not a word about the Nazis WORSE miss treatment
of
Soviet POWs and others and the denial of free speech for everyone under Nazi
control?
HOW COME?
Stan the Free Speech Man
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, Dec 26, 2016 12:14 pm
Subject: Re: [sparkscoffee] US POW
JJ,
I don't know where you get your information from.
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
Army in the last year of the war. The POWs were employed as forced labor in the
Soviet gulags. It wasn't until 1956 that the last surviving German POW returned
home from the USSR. That's 11 years later.
According to Soviet records 381,067 German Wehrmacht POWs died in Soviet forced
later camps, but another 700,000 were reported as "missing", bringing the total
to over one million German POW's who died in Soviet forced labor camps AFTER
THE WAR WAS OVER.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union
-RR
-----Original Message-----
From: "John J. Miller" <seaspark@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Dec 26, 2016 10:56 AM
To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sparkscoffee] US POW
Greetings
May be of interest to some.
German POWs in the US had it pretty good, also in Britain and later in
France.
In the USA they had good rations, treatment, etc., because we did not
want any mis treatment of our men captive in Germany.
When the war ended and all prisoners of the Germans were accounted for,
things rapidly changed and conditions grew a lot harder for German POWs.
Three prisoners convicted of murdering one of their own were hanged at
Leavenworth, (Still buried there). This caused quite a stir because
hostilities were ended and then they were executed. This is all detailed
in a book but I don't recall the name. I believe there was a TV movie
about it. You can probably research on Google.
POW in U.K. were able to work on farms, etc. and they were better off
than the poor guys fighting a losing war.
Some German soldiers had to serve after the war as Pows as a form of
punishment, they were better off then returning to Germany '46-'47. I
knew a fellow who served his time in France working on a flax farm, he
also agreed that it was better than returning home immediately.
73
JJ Miller
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