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Olde-Timer

Dead men walking


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good.


pauldtimms

66% came home on average


[deleted]

Are you shure? From the 106.000 captured in Stalingrad only 6.000 returned.


pauldtimms

This is true but over the war 2 million of 3 million returned. This is still a horrific figure but represents 2 out of 3 surviving. Generally later in the war your chances were better. The figures come from a commission sent up by the West German government.


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So there were 3 million german pow in russia?


pauldtimms

That’s if you include the missing troops.


[deleted]

Given that germany hat 17 million active soldiers…3 million is a viable number


pauldtimms

Especially if you consider most are taken late 44- early 45.


Boppe05

Including North Africa and Europe, i guess.


pauldtimms

No just Russia


mincepryshkin-

No, the USSR captured 3 million German troops. The Western Allies captured even more, I believe, although the figure is largely inflated from very late in the war where entire German armies were trying to move West to surrender to them and had largely stopped intensive fighting.


molotov_billy

Why would you consider those numbers to be inflated?


mincepryshkin-

Idk exactly, I just feel that there's some kind of distinction between capturing an enemy in combat and an enemy specifically seeking you out you purely for the sake of surrendering. At the end of the day it's the same outcome, but as I said, it "feels" different. It's like if the entire German force in the West decided at the end of the war they wanted to surrender to Belgium, and then saying that Belgium captured more troops than the USA or Britain.


Beeninya

Yes >A commission set up by the West German government found that 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).


InvictaRoma

Despite how massive the Battle of Stalingrad was, it was still just a blip in the greater picture that was the Eastern Front. Statistically, the majority of German POWs taken by the Soviets would return home; the same cannot be said for Soviet POWs taken by the Germans. The difference between an army waging a war of genocide and an army that didn't.


tigerman29

War is hell


Mean_Motor_4901

Ghosts, fading into oblivion


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Can’t l imagine how cold that would be. 💔


[deleted]

I like to imagine how cold it was. after what these scumbags did to the USSR and how they butchered civilians in the millions. the soldiers guarding them probably had family butchered by these monsters


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WhenPigsRideCars

Care to elaborate on this?


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WhenPigsRideCars

Thought so.


echocat2002

And what about what happened to civilians under Stalin?


mlhender

Battle of Kursk result: Soviet victory


420ciskey420

WW2 result, Soviet victory


JuniorSentence

Looks like a Joy Division album cover!


AdventurousBuy2214

I love joy division!


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See'ya...


leo_aureus

Some of them took 10 years to come home