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12 de ene. de 2022 · German soldiers who returned from the war, often after years in prison camps, added to the unfamiliarity. “Limping men” walked across everyday scenes.
21 de ago. de 2019 · For Huber it is the German civilians who killed themselves at the war’s end, in particular those – at least 600 of them – who took their own lives in the Pomeranian town of Demmin (population circa 15,000) within the four days following the arrival of Red Army at the end of April 1945.
In the years following World War II, large numbers of German civilians and captured soldiers were forced into labor by the Allied forces. The topic of using Germans as forced labor for reparations was first broached at the Tehran conference in 1943, where Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin demanded 4,000,000 German workers.
NARRATOR: Stalingrad, January 1943 - an entire German army is defeated. At least 700,000 have died on both sides. Over 100,000 Wehrmacht soldiers end up in Soviet captivity. They're transported to Siberian camps.
German soldiers were first used to do the dirty work of cleaning up after the war, then to retain order in Germany, and finally to rebuild a bulwark against the Soviets. Some were unarmed, but some were under arms.
26 de may. de 2024 · Over 7.5 million German soldiers had already been killed, seriously wounded, or gone missing. Another 7.6 million German men between the ages of 18-45 had fallen into Allied hands as prisoners of war.
8 de may. de 2020 · French forces had already sent 800 German soldiers captured during fighting in the region back to France, where more than 100 POW camps had been set up across the country.
