What Happened to German POWs After WW2?

[@allrequiredfields]

To be fair, the Soviets didn't treat their own civilians much better.

[@yoinks9907]

to be fair why would they treat soldiers who killed off 27 million of their people and burnt their nation to the ground with the intention to eradicate their people with respect?

[@Danzel_Gaming]

Nice one ​@@somebodyorosomething

[@That_Guy_Says_Hi]

Trash culture.

[@ninguemjao1519]

nice joke

[@soulimanetsouri1578]

السوفيات كانوا أسوأ جيش في التعامل مع أسرى الحرب

[@stephenfricke9298]

A friend i worked with was a Soviet POW. He hated them. He then was exchanged to an American camp. He loved it and moved to America (NJ) until he died

[@KostasLabropoulosPatras]

and i hate Germans because they executed thousands of inoccent civilians without reason, whats your point now? The Russians are bad but your friend was good? he should have thought about it before he join Nazis, wtf he was thinking when someone was telling him "kill the Jews" ? he couldnt understand that only maniacs giving such orders?His mistake.....he is lucky he didnt paid for his stupidity as he should!!

[@nickfrmdahill147]

Friends with a a natszie is a weird flex but ok

[@navyseal1689]

​@@nickfrmdahill147not every german soldier is natzie but ok

[@nickfrmdahill147]

@@navyseal1689 sorry if your ancestor was to scared to die for what was right, but evry German in the third reich knew what they signed up for so let’s stop before it gets too wild on your part

[@nickfrmdahill147]

@@navyseal1689 or we can keep going just lmk

[@bearvonsteuben9675]

My step grandfather and his men outran the Russians, and finally found Americans to surrender to. He was brought to a large dairy farm in Maryland where he struck up a friendship with the owner. Neither spoke the other’s language, but they both spoke French. Mr. Brown sponsored him and was instrumental in bringing over his wife and three children after the war ended. Pappi was forever a talented, hardworking, kind man and one proud (and thankful) American, living and working on that farm for the rest of his life. 🤗

[@rapha5891]

Are we supposed to feel happy for your nazi ‘pappi’ or what lol? He was too much of a coward to face the consequences so he ran. Nothing noble…

[@razahyt2221]

Sounds like this could be a potential movie

[@bearvonsteuben9675]

@@razahyt2221 Good point, and if you extend it out a bit it’s at least a three-parter. Prologue: He was a strong anti-nazi, and did his best to keep them at bay (avoiding conscription) by first moving his family to Vienna. Hitler followed with his annexation. So, Pappi had friends in the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland, and moved his young family there. You can see how this went. Finally, it was inevitable, so he enlisted. And that’s only a small part of the extended family lore.

[@goodone5590]

​@@bearvonsteuben9675mmm i teresting, should of been investigated for war crimes!

[@es4152]

@@goodone5590the Wehrmacht weren’t nazis dude go read a book most were just regular soldiers

[@scottyjordan9023]

I knew an German ME109 pilot who was shot down over North Africa. He was sent to a prison camp over by 29st Ave north and 17 bypass in Myrtle Beach SC. Anyone who has ever visited broadway at the beach it’s across the road from where the camp was. A plywood mill in the neighboring town of Conway used him for labor until he was paroled and sent back to Germany. He later immigrated back to Conway with his family and went to work with that same plywood mill until he retired. Several of us local veterans would meet once per month for breakfast and the German ME 109 pilot by the name of Walter Luft would always join us. He would pass away in Grand Strand Regional Medical Center on 7/9/2008 a couple of miles from where he was a prisoner of war.

[@1DarkBlossom]

Funny enough, grandma told me a couple of times how American soldiers helped her family escape from the Russians. She loved America. She even went to Newark to visit her childhood friend often.

[@ChrisSills-jv8st]

I’ve heard of this POW camp in MB. Did Herr Luft talk about daily life in the camp much? Not much is known about it other than it was one of the smaller POW camps.

[@fernandovertemati4876]

Incredibile. Il suo cognome era LUFT ed era nella LUFTWAFFE.😮😊

[@dumann9142]

​@@1DarkBlossomscared of the inglourious basterds

[@validavliyeva4524]

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[@kevanwillis4571]

Many German prisoners stayed in the U.K after the war. 'Forced labour' is a very evocative description. They were made to work, not worked to death in the U.K.

[@tomflendodo7297]

11 Million German Prisoner's After World WAR II And, They Still SURRENDERED????????

[@gunnigasig9084]

They stayed because Germany was destroyed and under shitty conditions. They dreamed for a better life

[@Cristian88.]

Yes. American, British and even Frenchs weren t animals like the soviets.

[@Projectinvestor]

UK would never be animals plus they only gave Russians the nazi parties the others was do or die to be a nazis so they got looked after

[@Projectinvestor]

Plus not every German tortured prisoners the Germans that helped captured soldiers was looked after and was welcomed in the US and uk

[@roofcat4057]

My great-grandfather returned from Russian captivity after 6 years. When he arrived in his hometown, my grandpa, his son saw him standing in the garden. My grandfather then shouted "Mom, Dad is back" my great-grandmother went out into the garden and beat my grandfather, because she thought he was lying, but there he was, after 6 years of captivity. He had one arm less, but he survived the captivity well. The problem, many other women were remarried when their husbands returned from captivity.

[@ErrRomanista]

Wow bro, if my great grandfather didn't return back home i wouldn't even be there, did you great granfather fight with the axis?

[@Hitman-ds1ei]

Most of these men were just soldiers on both sides paying a price for the faults of the leaders

[@bbmtge]

And that's why you will always be an idiot.

[@dumann9142]

Scalped by the inglourious basterds

[@hollynonya6991]

What about Japan ? Japan was worse than Germany! They got a slap on the wrist

[@bigboicreme]

​@@hollynonya6991yep

[@17461771]

@@hollynonya6991 Quite, A life is cheap in Asia. As in Russia.

[@OfficialAliensonEarth]

My great grandfather was a nazi pilot and he hated the fact that he was forced to fight on the nazi side. But after the war he fleed to New Zealand and died in 2005

[@kendall_knows_best2872]

Sure he did

[@Kkk-cc1iy]

I believe him... but I dont think he cared as long as he lived. ​@@kendall_knows_best2872

[@achnee1000]

Das glaubst Du?

[@BrucePerkins-mc3hp]

The Germans sent a message to Stalin saying That they would treat the Soviet pows with Respect as required under the Geneva convention. Stalin turned the offer down, saying that the pows in German hands were Not Soviet soldiers, so the Germans and Soviet pows were not afforded the standard Protection under the convention covering Pows

[@jdsofar]

Why would he do that to his own men who were fighting to save Russia. he really did not care. so selfish rotten man

[@LanceRomanceF4E]

My parent’s neighbor was a former German POW who worked a beet farm in Kansas while a prisoner. He said he ate better as a POW than he did in the Germany Army. He also said that he was paid for his labor as a prisoner and, released in 1946, worked a local farm and used that money to help move his family from Zweibrucken Germany to Monmouth county New Jersey in 1949-50. He bought a struggling butcher shop and made it the best meat market on the Jersey shore. He was a hard working man with a good family. Treating POWs right paid huge dividends for the USA not just with the Germans, but the Italians and Japanese

[@dinkeydink9376]

93% of German Stalingrad POWs perished.

[@ademarrodriguez7113]

El 100 por ciento de los prisioneros rusos los dejaron morir de hambre, además esos "angelitos" quemaban mujeres y niños en los hornos...

[@Faicon9493]

I have a friend whose family is German. One day he told me about an uncle of his who flew a Stuka dive bomber in WWII. He survived after getting shot down over England and was captured. He was eventually shipped to America and spent the rest of the war in a POW camp in Arizona. He was able to stay in America after the war lived the American dream. My father, a black man, served in the segregated U.S. Army and was sent to the Pacific Theater. He survived Saipan and returned home after the war to the American nightmare of “You and your uniform need to get to the back of the bus, N-word.”

[@joseph-sj7do]

95000 German troops surrendered at Stalingrad and only 5000 Survived to return to Germany, 24 Generals surrendered and all survived.

[@DeusVult-nn8yq]

It’s sad to think that even the Germans who didn’t even want to fight for the Nazis, were still treated unfairly

[@MichaelaSchneider-j7o]

No, germans killed 26 million russians, is this right?

[@f.n8581]

They probably voted for Hitler so they deserved too !

[@ToreFattahi]

ALL GERMAN WAS BRAIN WASH BY HITLER,,AND DID WORSE THING TO ALL PEOPLE ,AND DESERVD ALL BAD EFTER END OF WAR

[@phyllisduncan1408]

They were treated better than the Black soldiers that fought for this country

[@richieidahosa1338]

Fr

[@violetmartha916]

My dad's only sibling, his brother, Horst was in a Russian POW camp. My dad, captured in France, came to England. Horst died, aged 26. My dad survived.

[@impossibledrms]

So, what did happen to German power soldiers AFTER WWII. In the U.S. some Germans and some Italians stayed. They liked the country, and the people treated them right. Those that went back had a lot of cleaning up to do, farming, getting food, etc. But the Marshall plan helped out.

[@gunnigasig9084]

Germany was destroyed and under shitty conditions. They had to rebuild everything. It was easier to stay and hope for a better life

[@Mondstaub1310]

I am from Germany and both my great grandfathers were forced into war at around 19. I don't know much because they both died before I was born but my grandfathers father told him that he was forced to kill people who surrendered. He was told that they (other germans) would kill him if he didn't kill the prisoners. Then he was captured my russians, escaped, walk home and got captured and held prisoner for nearly 2 years after the war by the soviets. All in a war that HE DID NOT WANT TO FIGHT IN. I am very aware of the horrors of WW2 because we do not get to live it down but many forget that not all germans were doing it out of their own will and we were not trieded any better by the rest of the world either or at least those who survived.

[@Bogdans98]

thats not excuse for killing people if you are real man u die like hero not like nazi shit

[@JoseFernandez-qt8hm]

2 million soviet POWs were murdered in German captivity.....

[@jeffkeith3654]

We had a POW Camp in my hometown. The Prisioners worked in the Corn Canning Factory and Fields around the area. Extremely well behaved, it would be interesting to find a way and have a list of all their Names.

[@hw7782]

My Dad had to go to several POW-camps in Canada. One of them was Fort Henry. He tried to escape with a camerade. They were catched. His fellow comrade lost his eye when a guard smacked his head with his rifle button and he himself was locked into a small cell, around 2 x 1m for one month in total pitch darkness. I really love Canada, and its people, have been there twice, but that sounds to me like a bit of a war crime. To much for something which everybody would try, if possible.

[@LJWalter78]

I’m sorry your father had to endure the Allies bringing “Freedom and Liberty” to people in Germany. Ironic isn’t it? The war crimes were far more and waaaay worse than what history claims them to be. The German people suffered at a level we will never truly understand. -Frankfurt -Cologne -Strasbourg and the terribly inhumane and incomprehensible terror bombing of Dresden 😢. Estimates of up to 650,000 civilians killed. Dresden was overrun with thousands and thousands of refugees fleeing west ahead of the red horde that brought with them unimaginable mistreatment, extreme torture, gRape and redrum. Watch the docu film HELLSTORM It’s sickening.

[@SteveSmith-lo2wd]

My mom worked with German POWs in Oklahoma. They were brought over from a Texas military base. She said they couldn't understand them . But the young POWs were treated well.

[@sickocell]

The Soviets just reciprocated what the Nazis did to Soviet POWs.

[@chucklucas8747]

My dad was in charge of German pow work gangs they cut timber for rebuilding Germany he said there was so much metal in the trees saw blades had to be changed everyday sometimes two

[@GSXK4]

The Germans in Soviet gulags had it bad. The Russians in German camps had it the worst.

[@Cristian88.]

No

[@wesleylucas3818]

Yes

[@ryancreevy418]

Doesn't make it right

[@wesleylucas3818]

@@ryancreevy418 they did muts worst stuff you get what you dusurve

[@_S.T.A.L.K.E.R._]

​@@Cristian88. yes

[@Uncle228]

Most German soldiers did not have any affiliations to the nazi party and only joined to server their country

[@Karottenregen]

My great uncle was captured by the red army in 1942, he was among the lucky ones that survived the soviet camps and got home. He was released in 1956, 14 years after he was first sent into a pow camp. And he only arrived at home in 1957 because the soviets forced the pow's to get back home by their own so manny had to go on foot.

[@richardwilson7463]

What happened to millions of Russian POWs in Germany? Or civilians in German occupied Russia?

[@mikeswilp6001]

They were MURDERED !

[@mampe8898]

​@@mikeswilp6001 ❤

[@hnys7976]

The germans wanted to exterminate the slavic people.

[@emailtat5860]

Really: was millions of RUSSIANS POW ? Is BS. Were not the RUSSIANS who win ? Where ethnic minority soldiers and Russian Commissary at their back?

[@jamesvargas3581]

GOOD

[@britishtechguru]

I knew a guy who was Polish. He had been a surgeon but got pressed into the German army after Germany invaded Poland. He spent time in Soviet POW camps and then ended up in Britain where he found work as a phone engineer. When I met him in the 80s, he'd long retired.

[@ronaldthompson9815]

Some German soldiers knew what they have done in their heart was wrong a day of Reckoning was in their future that's why they ran towards the Americans.

[@anayarey]

It's awful, those men didn't choose to go to war

[@jesussaves520]

When you makes your bed you need sleep on it

[@cat-w9l1]

i thought jesus saves. lead by example afterlifeboy

[@DerWeißwulf]

What a ridiclious comment implying that soldiers that are rank and file, even high ranking, are responsible for political decisions within a regime, therefore are subjected to crimes after being captured etc. Use your brain a little bit more.

[@austin7037]

Would Jesus say that?

[@ShreksSwamp-12]

No, it was a battle of leaders, not men. Russia was too harsh. These men where forced to fight

[@bbmtge]

And I see the stupid, the moronic, the idiots post and post and post their nonsense.

[@MrSchmaaz]

The U.S. paid fair wages for work performed( which was voluntary). Here in Central Iowa, many German POWs opted to stay in America, many of which stayed in this area.

[@gunnigasig9084]

They stayed because simply Germany was destroyed and in shitty conditions, they dreamed of a better life

[@roon6425]

@@gunnigasig9084 they stayed because they knew Germany was a shithole (and still is)

[@tavish4699]

Fair is relative

[@MrSchmaaz]

@@tavish4699, going rate at the time.

[@analyzeit6882]

11 Million German soldiers would be more than the entire German military. About 150,000 German's were sent to France in forced labor camps. What German's were sent to the US? In fact, Eisenhower released about 950,000 prisoners.

[@Theendisnear788]

Do unto others what you want others do unto you.. The Germans did to those innocent souls so they get back what they sow and know also that it's painful and miserable like how Amon Goeth did ...will he be done

[@doanhvu9593]

Gulag ->forced labor Invasion->intervention authoritarianism->law and order

[@Droopybear]

Let's not forget the abuse they suffered by the French!

[@cotybax6358]

thank you for pointing this out in history because of course america never taught this side of the story. We could have done something about it.

[@sketchyhistory574]

I neglected to mention that Denmark forced German POWs to clear landmines by walking into them, which resulted in many being maimed or killed. But apart from that incident, we were much nicer than the Soviets.

[@dimiturml]

​@@sketchyhistory574 No, they forced them to clean land mines and after that walk over. The were not cleaning by walking.

[@Slipperybanana8173]

They actually used nazi youth to clear the land mines

[@_S.T.A.L.K.E.R._]

You still shouldn't have, these monsters eared far worse than those

[@NokotanFanCentral]

“We could of done something about it” easy to say then do

[@rickfortune1339]

My Dad was a Tennessee/ Football Star then that attacked Pearl Harbor..Dad walked to the Navy and was given a 1911 Colt 45. When he finished harming the Bad Guys. The FBI asked him to be an Instructor for 25 years. He was the Best Man at my wedding

[@betsylalich4570]

I salute and thank him !

[@USAHOMEBUYERPARTNERSHIPS]

How about Huntsville, Alabama? They had numerous German POW camps throughout the town and surrounding areas. From American ideology, they became more acclimated towards American values, and started to see Hitler, and how rotten he was. Although they still held socialistic Nazi elements, they organized with their fellow American neighbors and held many fares, outings, and meet and greets.

[@kovesp1]

The Latin alphabet Gulag sign is especially funny. All apart from the ignorance: GuLag was the abreviation of the Central Administration of Corrective Labour Camps. 365,000 or 14% died in Soviet camps. German sources claim without evidence that 700,000 MIA died in camps. This despite about that number of remains being discovered in battlefields and interred since 1991.

[@jonmcdaniel8492]

One German POW held at Camp McCoy came back to Wisconsin after the war and opened a restaurant not more than 30 miles away in Camp Douglas next to Target Bluff.

[@tom170670]

Several thousands died at the Rheinwiesenlager, even before having a chance to come to UK or US.

[@borisursfantechi8217]

My uncles told me the same. Starving for days.

[@KK-rg1wz]

@@borisursfantechi8217 Which peacefull countries were invaded by your uncles?

[@Michelle-qq4sd]

German soldier’s worked on my Grandfather’s farm in Bay City, MI.

[@rugby-freak69]

So soviets treated germans better than germans or Japanese treated anyone.

[@Cristian88.]

No. Germans treated in a good way allied soldiers, they respected them, but they treated like animals the soviets. Japan is different, for them anyone who wasn t from japan was an animal

[@REB4444]

They don't even treat their own soldiers well, they treated their POWs even worst.

[@GroßdeutschesLosung]

Why are we rationalizing who treated POWs worse? It was all wrong, including American and British forced labor. We shouldn’t downplay any of this, yet it isn’t okay to upscale it either. Remember we’re all people.

[@HarryGuit]

@@GroßdeutschesLosungWhy shouldn‘t german POWs do forced labor? They caused a lot of destruction. They shouldn‘t hesitate to lend a hand reconstructing.

[@GroßdeutschesLosung]

@@HarryGuit It’s as simple as forced labor without proper trial is wrong whenever it is employed. Especially when using underage German conscripts to clear minefields (one of the examples).

[@humanitywins7159]

They could only dream of a concentration camp. They were left to die in a fenced area without shelter, food or water.

[@mikesummers6880]

My uncle who a soldier with the African korps was captured at Al emayne and shipped to Canada he said they were treated well and after the war was sent to England Leicestershire to work .on one of his of days he went to a local fair where he met his future wife and ended up staying in England probably because he knew Germany was no place for his new bride, plus he nothing to go back to his land home everything was lost it was given to Poland.

[@Werewolf16-r9w]

My great grandfather was forced into the german army at the age of 16, he fought for a few years but then got captured by the soviets and he stayed in the Gulag until the end of the war

[@JoeB-cp8lr]

Germans didn't show Russians no mercy

[@TimGrimes-q2q]

or food, water or shelter

[@marinecorps2671]

@@TimGrimes-q2qpartisans aren’t civilians

[@hnys7976]

That’s because they wanted to exterminate the Slavic race from Europe and drive the remaining east of the Ural Mountains.

[@lordseelenfresserdemonking1168]

*any*

[@impulseelectrobrine1259]

@@TimGrimes-q2qyeah neither did their government

[@jamesw.t.9591]

I would rather be dead better than being pow in soviet .

[@pamelajohnson7813]

Found out there was a POW camp in Iowa. The prisoners farmed but in their spare time, played instruments, sang in a choir & put on plays! I saw this on, Finding Your Roots, when a celebrity's grandfather was in the war, captured & sent to this camp. There is a museum in that town & she found a picture of her grandfather in the orchestra!

[@KG72]

Russia treated their own people badly, so what to expect. My wife's grandfather, romanian, was a POW in Russia, Ural Mountains in a coal mine for 5 years. He was one of the few who returned home.

[@Ojee07]

In the Netherlands, they had to clean up the mines they put on our shores. It is kinda what they deserved though, since they put them there in the first place.

[@ContagiousSponge]

Some of them are even now still not found because they put way too many

[@farawaydiaries6340]

my great grandfather was captured by the soviets at the end of war. He was so traumatized that he couldn't return to his own family.

[@sanadriko324]

I think its important to know, that even on the US/UK Side there were problems. My grandfather was called in to the german army and was part of Rommels army in north africa. There he was captured by the British and held at a POW camp. I sadly dont know exactly how, but he was later part of a prisoner exchange und came in to a russian POW camp. I believe he was in a german-british exchange and then captured again by the russians, but I really dont know the details. After the war he was held for three or four more years in russia, due to malnutrition. Just to comprehend how bad it was: he was about 1.95m (6,3ft) high and weighed about 45 kg (99,3lb). He ALWAYS sad he was treated better in russia, because he starved in both countrys, both had bad housing, both had despicable situations but he sad the russian guatds had near to nothing themselfs while the british smoked, drank tea and had full meals infront of him. I don't know if it was the guards in the british camp who worsend the situation or if it was a systematic mistreating on side of the government. I also believe that the situation in russia was infact worse just based on numbers. The saying in our family is, that when he finally came home nobody in his village (around 100 people) recognized him due to his massive weight-loss. Only his blind father recognized the sound of his step. Now, I of course can't verify any of this, nether the family legend, nor his description of the camps. I just have to take his wird for it, as you habe to take it too now. Sadly he passed away in 2013 so I can't even ask for more details but he nearly never talked about the war, he was really traumatized. But he ALLWAYS told us to question everything about warstorys (and I believe thats why he told us this one warstory and only the one). The winner writes history. Noone wants to hear that his country may have mistreated POW. Noone wants to hear about the atrocities of war. But in germany its a big part of oir education to learn what happened, what crimes were comited especially on the german side. And that basiclly is why i wrote this roman. To tell everybody to critically question the storys one is told. In my eyes there is no good and bad in war, just bad and mabye badder. But in my outside view of american and other allied countrys culture (i isolated america here, because that is the only country where i really get information on) or better social media there is a massive heroification of war and a neglect for the wrongdoings on the own side. I don't want to make anyone angry, this is just a problem I see everywhere. It is a refusal to learn from history and as a wise man once sad: He who doesn't learn from history is doomed to repeat it.

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

The German pows in the USA were absolutely stunned and at the same time overjoyed and heartfelt with the USA and Royal Air Force Berlin airlift... Sadly for the first time in 5 years during the war of the USA did go on some small food rationing but it was just in order to make sure the people in Berlin were fed because the Soviets were starving them out... They were not giving them food plus they were not even providing blankets coats clothing or anything like that ... Every 3 to 5 minutes of playing flew out of West Germany and flew into West Berlin. They have this wonderful system put together and the minute a plane would land the men would get together and quickly unload the plane because they knew three to five minutes later or another one was going to land.. the pows in the USA at the time were really ecstatic and so happy about that because they were not expecting the Americans in British to go out of their way to do that after what the Nazis and the German government had done but that was Adolf Hitler and those people were gone... That was in the past and it was time for Germany to rebuild❤

[@kitsmith806]

In fact the German soldiers who were sent here to America were treated better in the south states of our country than Black and Brown AMERICAN people born here ... That's some of the history that some Americans don't want their children and grandchildren to know.

[@REB4444]

Now you're making shit up.

[@venkateshmandikal8811]

pale faces stay United!!

[@bro-doswaggins4542]

@@venkateshmandikal8811Amen brother!

[@folaback46]

Pale dogs u mean

[@Jamesy5725]

@@venkateshmandikal8811like the Germans and the Russians lol

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

In the USA they did not have forced labor and actually they did not have to work but if they did not work they would not make any money but just received the clothing and three meals a day.. all of the German men for the most part wanted to work because they got paid $20 a month to work and coming from Germany that was a lot of money to them and they were hard workers.. most of the pows that came to the USA absolutely loved it and thought it was the most diverse PlayStation ever seen in their lives.. ..

[@darthsmallofthewade9903]

So I guess Russia hasn't changed at all

[@danvondrasek]

My great grandpa was a POW guard in New Mexico. They worked the Germans hard, but they'd also bring them into town for Ice Cream, and movie nights. Being German himself, him and my grandfather got along well with the POWs, surprisingly.

[@justcurious7505]

USSR gave them their own treatment in return

[@yurinator6380]

USSR treated the germans like they treat their own citizens

[@fullm3taljack3t55]

2x More Russians got tortured and died in German camps than Germans died in the whole war also German soldiers impregnated a lot of Russian women after there sentences there is a majority of half Germans in Russia and they make up over 60% of the rich and wealthy Russians will always be slaves to your Nordic and Jewish masters

[@hnys7976]

It's not the same. The majority of germans in soviet camps returned to germany. The majority of soviets in german camps were killed.

[@Legittimista_Napoletano]

You can’t blame the everyday conscripted German soldier for the atrocities committed by the ss and their government.

[@emailtat5860]

​@@yurinator6380 like CRIMINALS.

[@mololomuanlallian]

That 1 million could've killed atleast 1.5 million of their Soviet army.

[@theworkshopmechanicchannel3296]

They left them to starve in a field out in the elements

[@Aaron-gt7nl]

🤝🇩🇪i'm a german that's true

[@KeyserSoze1972]

French camps did the same to nearly 1 million german men

[@TheBlueocean89]

My grandfather, whom I never met, was conscripted into the Wermacht twice during WW2. The second time was near the end of the war when everybody, except the nazi fanatics, wanted the war to end. He ended up shooting himself in the left arm during enemy contact so that he could go home. Very risky, but he realized they were send to their certain deaths by fanatical nazis during the volkssturm.

[@nikitaots6291]

Russian POW's were treated much worse. Have two family members who died in German POW camps.

[@johnbrodecki2975]

Two wrongs to make it right.

[@f.n8581]

@@johnbrodecki2975Yes it does it’s called revenge !

[@Brslld]

​@@johnbrodecki2975No one said it was right. OP just said his family suffered more than the germans. Stop being illiterate.

[@borisursfantechi8217]

R.I.P. Kameraden

[@Charles-h1x]

There was a German camp in Sledge ,MS. My teenaged Mother and her friend would walk by there several times a day.

[@larrythompson7282]

SAD THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THERE THEY ASKED FOR IT !!!

[@LeedsCorp]

Clearly you don’t know history. Nor ever served in any military service. Couch potato 🥔 commentary

[@timminh468]

When the next war starts you’ll swallow that phrase

[@sergekudrynskyj6662]

The Russians had experience of doing in people from the 1920s, 1930s, mainly denationalising UKrainians by various means. After the war, and during it even, they continued such activities.

[@jaynegalloway3495]

After what they done to my people nothing that happened to them was good enough.

[@Cristian88.]

The same that your people did to them. No one is on the right side, because there isn t one

[@betsylalich4570]

​@@Cristian88. Oh my Lord ! You have NO sense of right or wrong. You are this naive ?!

[@1DarkBlossom]

@@betsylalich4570He is right. This constant whining about what happened is disgusting. I do understand that your folks have suffered and so habe mine. But besides that, what do you think war is? A game? Do you think people go there to play durak and drink cheap vodka? Get a grip. People were driven by fear, you f00l. Could’ve told you a thousand stories about what your holy people did to mine, yet I do understand the game and do not see them as evil. Grow up

[@Mondstaub1310]

I am from Germany and both of my great grandfathers were forced to fight in WW2 at a young age. Are you fucking kidding me? I am aware that Germany commided Horrors in WW2 but how about you show my a country who didn't comit Horrors at least once in their history. Boys as young as 13 were forced to fight this war are you telling me they all desirved to die as well. Wtf

[@kubamajchrzak1127]

​@@betsylalich4570 naiwny a ponadto debilem jesteś ty skoro uważasz, że sowieci byli tacy dobrzy. W rzeczywistości to straszna dzicz, bo tylko dzicz może wymordować miliony WŁASNYCH obywateli oraz kilka tysięcy żołnierzy innego państwa strzelając im w potylice. Sowieci byli jeszcze gorsi, idąc przez Europe z "wyzwoleniem" zgwałcili setki tysięcy kobiet, brudne azjatyckie ruskie żołdaki Obozy kcentracyjne zwane gułagami były w Związku Sowieckim długo przed wojną, a za swoje zbrodnie razem z Niemcami w Norymberdze nie odpowidzieli tylko z tego powodu, iż wygrali wojnę, a jak wiadomo wygranych się nie sądzi. Nie rozumiem czemu tylu ludzi jest niedouczonych i w porównaniu z Niemcami Rosjan uważa za świętych, a tak naprawdę jedni i drudzy byli siebie warci, ponieważ czerwoni też chcieli podbić całą Europe i wprowadzając zbrodniczy reżim komunistyczny

[@heinerhonermann6603]

My oldest uncle had to work in mines in Tunesia for 2 years as a french prisoner of War.

[@cob9834]

My German relatives who fought in World War II because they were forced to became POWs working in the United States and when they were released, they enlisted in the US Army and Fortin career for the US Army and we’re happy to and then they became US citizens

[@gunnigasig9084]

They stayed because Germany was destroyed and under shitty conditions. They simply dreamed for a better life

[@john-hz5cy]

#AMERICA 🇺🇸, THE BEAUTIFUL, FAIR, FREE, LOVE, NO UNFAIR TREATMENT BECAUSE ALMIGHTY GOD AND JESUS CHRIST WANT IT THAT WAY!!! 🕯🕯🕯 #Redemption of the Soul..✝️

[@berzerker1100]

​​@@john-hz5cymerican USA is No More, Rainbow🌈 flag 🏳️‍🌈 in the White house Fairy parades for 30 days of Pride Veteran's day only 1 day Labor day 1 day Memorial day & Christmas 1 day pride gets a whole month, Last days R here 😢

[@thegoyimknow.]

Over a million Germans died in Eisenhowers open air camp as well.

[@timbrandt4981]

Mein Großvater überlebte zum Glück die Gefangenschaft mit Folter in Russland. Er sagte aber auch das nicht nur sie nichts zu essen hatten die Russischen bewacher hatten auch nichts.

[@user-pc1xb3hb6d]

My grandpa was a pow in USA he must be work an a farm in Kentucky, but he was very skinny he was sick then he came to a hotel and must clean the tabel. He died in 2014. He had a spoon with the U.S. sign from the time as pow he allwas eating with him

[@ratherb_skating7145]

Now lets see what happened to Soviet POWs. 3.5 million were killed in German hands which was 60% of all the Soviets that surrendered.

[@eliasziad7864]

Exactly, I'm tired of these anti-Soviet propagandists. Imagine if the Germans killed 18 million American civilians and murdered 3 million American POWs??? The Germans absolutely deserved it.

[@cranegantry868]

You forgot that the Germans ran out of food for EVERYONE at the end of the war. And that is why lots of POW's died. It was the same for Germans in American and British supervision. There was very little food to feed them and many died.

[@stevecarey2030]

@@cranegantry868 Incorrect. The Germans intentionally starved the Soviet prisoners of war right from the beginning. Herman Goering created the policy of intentionally starving them to death.

[@teresitaaustria5664]

​@@cranegantry868fr every side experienced it and the 60%? there are just way too many pow ofcourse it would be 60%

[@Brslld]

​@@cranegantry868The Germans in Berlin didn't lose 60% of their population. Besides why would you invade a country if you dont even have enough food to feed your own? Perfectly explains why millions died of starvation in German/Italian occupied Greece, and USSR. Germans hoarded all the foods. Even Geobbels in his diaries was surprised that the people in Ukraine were not rebelling as hard enough as he expected since they took most of their food. In Kharkivtens of thousands starved in the winter since 6th army (the one that got destroyed in stalingrad) took all the food. Even with all your excuses, those dead POWs remained as blood on their hands.

[@dodoDodo-of6pu]

In Canada a lot of them didn't want to leave. They were given passes to go watch movies. Once the Germans tried organizing a riot/breakout. They were shocked when MP's showed up with batons and water cannons. They thought for sure the guards were going to shoot them. The SS on the other hand sometimes didn't make it to a POW camp after surrendering. Canadians are all or nothing. We will either do anything we can to help you. Or we'll do anything to destroy you. There's a saying. 'Canadians during peace, we're sorry. Canadians during war you'll be sorry'

[@eliasziad7864]

I don't see a problem, the Germans treated Soviet POWs much worse, 3 million Soviet POWs died in German camps, a horrifying number.

[@nicktozie6685]

Treated as slaves by all allies. Yes they did.

[@Hienohomma2]

My grandfather was captured by the red army. He was Finnish. Soviets hated Finns, always have hated them. The soviet dream was the genocide of Finns. My grandfather managed to escape before he was taken in the death trains to Siberia. He walked home and weighted 40kg. Broken man who turned to alcohol. War is hell and the aftermath is hell.

[@nomysterynopuzzle3052]

Well, the energy you put out into the universe is the same one to expect in return.

[@johncox2865]

“Judge not lest ye be judged.” The Soviets owed Germans a debt of horror that Americans will never understand. We sat here crying our losses, in warm homes with regular food. But, our children didn’t starve or freeze to death. Our cities weren’t burned and our women weren’t raped. It is for God to decide this question. Not us.

[@johncox2865]

And, American sisters and mothers weren’t firing anti-tank guns into advancing Panzers on the outskirts of the District of Columbia, either. No, I won’t criticize the Soviets about the aftermath of WW II. They didn’t start that horror.

[@Cristian88.]

@@johncox2865 they are on same level as germans, if we re talking about how they treated each other. It isn t Germany 'fault, it s both

[@betsylalich4570]

Excuse me John, but you are terribly mistaken...THOUSANDS of Americans fought against Nazism and thousands died doing it. Where did you learn history ? Americans LEFT their "comfortable" homes to travel very far to fight the enemy called Nazis, including members of my own family, even dying, fighting bravely.

[@betsylalich4570]

​@@Cristian88. Very wrong. Hitler was VOTED into power. The Nazi mentality began VERY early AND still lives within some.

[@sparkyfromel]

@@Cristian88. The soviets didn't have a plan and intent to exterminate all the Germans and invaded the place for this purpose

[@Indianscholargd]

*"BARBARIANS.!"*

[@Anon88-b9s]

Soviets were arguably worse than the Nazis... Stalins war crimes were shocking

[@f.n8581]

Not even close you sicko lol The Germans killed in the Soviet Union alone over 19 million civilians and burned entire Families alive !!! What happened with the Wehrmacht soldiers and Berlin wasn’t enough considering what Germans did in the Soviet Union !!!

[@OneBoldVet]

Indeed, Stalin was way worse when it came to war crimes. Hitler rather commited crimes to humanity, and not as much war crimes as the soviets.

[@carlthegamerx1186]

My grandfather was in the ss before the end of ww2 he was captured by the Americans and when the Korean War he was let free and he joined the American army

[@alexandermalinowski4277]

I think that the clip is wrong and confuses, what happened during the war and after the war. One million died during the war, especially in famine in 1943. This was still much better treatment than Germans Soviet POV. However, after the war situation in Soviet Union improved, except famine of 1945 and 1946. German POV could have also be treated as replacement of fallen husband by a Russian woman.

[@moritzguderian8381]

many German pows ended up staying in the soviet union and marrying Russian women

[@christianwallner4048]

I'm just saying, Rheintallager. It was worse there than in the Soviet Gulag. Even liberated prisoners from concentration camps said that things were better in the concentration camps than in the Rhine Valley camps.

[@schmidtandreas1853]

Das will niemand wissen. Es geht nur darum die Sowjetunion schlecht zu machen.

[@adjothemodest]

Funny thing, but you somehow forgot to mention that 18 million of Soviet people were killed by Germans during the war. 18 million of civilians. Kids, women, elderlies. Plus 9 million of military men. 27 million total victims of German invasion. Nobody wanted to take them prisoners, you know. In fact, I'm really impressed by the humanism Soviets showed taking any prisoners at all! You also don't mention that Germans in Soviet Union were condemned and if there were any evidence of being war criminal lead them to be executed, while in America and Great Britain they were only forced to work. And due to this practice many millions of war criminals, who killed innocent people, confiscated food and firewood leaving people to die of cold and starvation in winter, escaped the justice. Sketchy indeed.

[@audreyharris7643]

The first half wasn't mentioned cause this us entirely about German pows

[@CarolusR3x]

'How to make this video entirely about only what you want to hear' in a comment.

[@Bibg867]

Just young lads fighting for their country like my Dad fighting for Britain.

[@salinagrrrl69]

Russisns pows were starved to death.

[@pitied3744]

The US and UK german pows were made to work but not to death. They had days off (depending on the Prison) were paid and given rights of the host country

[@sorennilsson9742]

The Germans got a brutal pay back, the individual soldier did not deserve it, the collective did. 24 million dead Soviet soldiers and civilians was revanged from the Russian perspective.

[@Cristian88.]

They chosed to send their soldiers to certain death

[@wedoalittletrolling]

@@Cristian88.and let the germans storm through their country and kill way more?

[@danrook5757]

Lots of them were in Toronto Canada in the 80s, loved the daughters

[@amin_baccari]

Sounds fair to me because the atrocities that the Germans inflicted on the soviets and the gargantuan scale of destruction would only make the Soviets seek brutal retribution. The soviet Union lost 27 million people, and 80% of the fighting took place between the Germans and the Russians

[@garymathena3612]

You shall reap what you sow.

[@kylelemire6049]

They where running to allied lines cause they knew what time it was..

[@OTDMilitaryHistory]

It wasn’t forced labour. They were paid for the work.

[@jp6869]

If you got captured in North Africa, you won the Landser lottery!

[@johnlombard8962]

Germans took no Soviet POW especially female soldiers

[@tom170670]

3,3 million is nothing???

[@johnlombard8962]

@@tom170670 just a drop in the ocean my friend

[@tyronefloyd7968]

Russian pow's ended up in Concentration Camps.

[@GerardBoer]

And most die there.