Comments by "Mar" (@swunt10) on "The Debate over German POWs in Soviet Hands WW2" video.

  1. and today on things that never happened...
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  2. none of this is interesting or useful. most germans went into captivitiy at the very end of the war. so the war was basically over when most of them became pows. millions went into captivity when the war was over. things looked very differently for the pows who went into captivity during the war. 2 things are interesting about that fact. the western allies where good to german pows during the war and horrible at the end of the war when thousands of german pows died or where killed by neglect by the allies eg Rheinwiesen. the soviets where the other way around. germans who became pows during the war more likely then not died at the hands of the soviets eg. pows of the battle of stalingrad. but at the very end of the war the soviets stopped systematically killing german pows and most survived. so the 2 or 3 million german pows that went into soviet captivity at the very end of the war had a very different survival chance compared to german pows during the war. I would guess less than 20% of germans that became pows before 1943 survived soviet captivity.
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