what happened to germany prisoners of war after ww2 #history #ww2 #military #germany #war #shorts

[gustavm]

I think the last POW from soviet union returned to Germany in 1955, ten years after the war ended.

[lentak]

if you knew what attrocities nazis did in soviet union this wouldnt supprise you

[milosbilic]

What German's did to Soviet people didn't deserve any mercy in camp's

[veruspatri]

Tens of thousands of German POWs in Canada we're given the freedom to work on farms.
It worked out pretty well for us, because a lot of our farms were left short-handed. (Too meny farm hands had volunteered for military service)

After the war meny of those German POWs immigrated back to Canada. Quite a few of those went back to the same community's / farms they were working as POWs.

[aon]

Around 600.000 POW held by the Western Power starved to death. They came around the Geneva cinvention by declaring these who capitulatet after the ceasefire as illegal combattants.

[jameshenderson]

During the war years, many German prisoners in the USA were working on farms and were treated very well, as some did not want to go back to Germany. My father told me of American farmers bringing the German prisoners chicken and beer for their midday lunch. As a young child, in the early 1950s, I remember one ex German prisoner visiting our farming community as he had become a citizen of the United States.

[bojanglesthewizard]

Maybe if the French went with Woodrow Wilson's plan of treating Germany with dignity and respect while also punishing them for ww1, rather than treating them with extreme hatred and punishing them extremely harsh, WWII wouldn't have happened

[FingerDarmKüsscheN]

That's a false Flag.... Its the DDR flag

[johnnelson]

You forget Denmark where they were forced to remove landmines and occasionally ended up dead because of it. There is a Danish movie "Land of mine" I believe is the title.

[vadimlazurko]

And how Hitler was eliminating all prisoners??? What gestapo did, such evil is hard to imagine, and for thum was normal every day life

[markusunterholzner]

Don’t forget the Rheinwiesen Camps, were POWs were held unsheltered like animals. The estimated number of dead soldiers are estimated between 10k and 1 Mio.
Soldiers who were forced to fight, soldiers who followed Hitlers orders willingly.
Young men, boys, victims of circumstances like everybody in those times

[jjaaaa]

After the war, my great-grandfather was sent to a prison camp in Russia and starved to death there. After a long research I now know where he fought last and where he finally died. I even know the exact grave number and know where the grave is. Unfortunately, he never made it home. 2 other great grandfathers of mine also fought. One of them was in the Waffen SS. Both survived the war after being imprisoned by the Americans. I have the greatest respect for all the soldiers who went through this hell of war.
Greatings from Germany my friends.

[giggontour]

My grandpa was in USA and told me different stories about how they got treated :)

[chrisbelvedere]

let's not forget Eisenhower's death camps on the Rhine. over a million German pows were starved to death.

[DanielJohnson-vrmw]

Pity they didn't all go to the Soviet Union.

[jonataseuuk]

I don't feel sorry for any of them.

[Mike]

We had German POW camps in Texas. I saw what was left of the one outside Gladewater. People need to realize that after years of war Europe was not in great shape. The times were chaotic and took years to recover. What some are saying is malicious intent was more likely just the inability to deal with millions of people in countries that couldn't even provide for their own people. It is very difficult to grow crops when you are being attacked.

[ionflorea]

They feared them because they knew the horrible atrocities they inflicted on the population and knew that they would be treated harshly as they deserved that.

[ricardorojas]

Also mention that in the Eisenhower death camps almost a million soldiers died, under the most inhumane conditions, since they were locked up in barbed wire fences in the open and were dying of starvation. That murder has gone unpunished.

[jdee]

German prisoner's were also kept in kangra valley in Himachal pradesh in India. What happened to them is not known