What happened to CAPTIVE German soldiers in the USSR?

During the Great Patriotic War, 3,486,206 prisoners of war ended up in the camps of the GUPVI of the NKVD of the USSR, of whom 2,388,443 were Germans. The rest represented Germany's allies - Hungarians, Romanians, Italians and others, including “soldiers of fortune” from various European countries. In this video, we will explore how former enemies survived in the country they fought so hard against.

[guitarlovers]

10 years ago, I was a tour leader, taking visitors to Russia. Local guides told us all those stories. It surprised me that TODAY, you tell me exactly the same thing. It’s amazing.❤❤❤

[oldschool]

All the Soviet prisoners who survived German camps were promptly shipped off to the gulags upon their return home.

[gaborkorthy]

My father was a Hungarian conscript and was captured on the Eastern front at the end of the war. He was a POW for three years in Russia. He and his younger brother survived the captivity. They were released in 1948 walked home to Hungary arriving unrecognizable to thier parents. My father weighed 40 kg (90lbs) when he arrived home and was hospitalized for six months.

[pippa]

I thought from the hundreds of thousands of german troops at stalingrad taken captive, only 9, 000 survived to go home

[boklung]

That’s odd since my grandfather’s division of 110000 only 11 returned to Berlin after the war who were held in Soviet gulags in Siberia.
He was one of them. Undernourished. Soviets Feed flour and water to the war prisoners returning to Germany this bloats the war prisoners to not look undernourished. So the Red Cross or the allies would not complain. Most German soldiers died on the way to the gulags being marched from far off locations to Siberia without food water or medical assistance. Soviets fudged numbers. In the gulags were Soviet political prisoners, people of different life styles, criminals, disabled citizens, war prisoners of all axis countries. Most died and thrown in mass unmarked graves. Hence BS to the high percentage returned back to their homes. Dig around the old gulags and the miles of dead on the way to the Soviet reeducation centres. This show is more propaganda than truth.

[ardendean]

My uncles were captured at Stalingrad. Three died in captivity. Only one was released after 19 years in captivity. He said they were fed very little. Ate rats and spoiled food thrown over the fence by the Russians. He worked by pulling plows with other prisoners. Ate potatoes pulled and hidden while plowing. No medical help. When released was given a couple of weeks to visit relatives in West Germany and had to go to East Germany to live afterwards or be killed. Family didn’t even know he was alive until he showed up at door in ragged clothes. Wife had remarried as they thought he was dead. Told of terrible pow conditions. Went to live in east Germany as he was scared of threats the Russians had made. This video is BS!

[rolandrodriguez]

From Stalingrad 90k German soldiers were captured and imprisoned. 12 years later less than 9k returned to Germany.

[JohnnyKakes]

What this video reveals about how the German POWs fared in the USSR prisons after WW2 raises more questions about my grandfather/Opa. Meine Mutti ist von Deutschland. My Opa was one of the 100, 000 German soldiers in Stalingrad who surrendered to the Soviet army in February '43. Somehow, he returned to his wife/my grandmother in March '46 in what was to become East Germany. My grandmother/Oma was made to labor by the Soviet soldiers with other women in the Feb. '45 bombed city of Dresden. He & my Oma, Mutti & Onkel, fled to the Lower Saxony region in West Germany in März '46. My Opa lived until 1998. In 1997, he was pulled aside when he showed his Deutscher Pass at San Francisco International Airport. Russia had him declared an escaped prisoner.

[donaldesmond]

What did German POWs expect..Over 22 Million Russians died in WW2..From the Gates of Moscow to the ruins of Berlin the Red flag flying over the Reichstag. Poetic justice.

[EddyStudio]

The Germans showed no mercy and deserved none in return!

[christopherkelley]

If you earned the bonus rations, your work quota was then increased.

[BufordTGleason]

The Germans were surrounded from November 19 until January 31 and only supplied by JU 52’s in atrocious weather with limited fighter protection. 3/4 of the total supplies delivered was fuel. There was not nearly enough food or ammunition. The Germans, after two months of this many were weakened with severe frostbite lacking winter clothing, malnourished and covered in lice when captured. Their chances of survival were slim even if they were treated better by the Russians.

[StevenSmith-dcfq]

Good, and skillful, despite the strange mix of visuals. (And also the fact that the narrator sounds like a Commie....)

[raunovittaniemi]

They have very hard time in Siberia...🥶🥶

[Axisalgia]

He got it totally wrong, and it will be taken as facts, we all knew POWs who were actually there!

[michaelattia]

Blame the Germans for starting the war in the first place.

[Joe_Snuffy]

85% went home from Russia? That’s the first I’ve heard that number. Me thinks your data is way off.

[Leningrad_Underground]

425, 000 US service personnel died in all theatres between Dec 1941 and Aug. 1945 . 9 times that number of Soviet prisoners of war died in German Pow Camps. In Russia war and its material damage and "Civilian " casualties was equivalent to a 9/11 event every day for 20 Years. Who Invited them to Russia ? Didn't they have a non aggression pact ? Play silly games win silly prises.

[PaulBrennan-zs]

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