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Estimates of German POWs who died in Soviet custody range from over 350,000 to one million. The mortality rate of German and Italian prisoners in Soviet custody was high, estimated at over 30% and over 70%, respectively. This was despite the USSR's public declarations of support for humane treatment of prisoners of war.
German advances through 5 December 1941, with large groups of encircled Red Army soldiers in red. Nazi Germany and its allies invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. [4] [5] The Nazi leadership believed that war with its ideological enemy was inevitable [6] due to the Nazi dogma that conquering territory to the east—called living space ()—was essential to Germany's long-term survival, [7 ...
Pages in category "World War II prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union" The following 95 pages are in this category, out of 95 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The following is a list of prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union during World War II. The Soviet Union had not signed the Geneva convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War in 1929. Polish POWs
Pages in category "Soviet prisoners of war" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Soviet Prisoners of War in World War II, which reports that of 1.5 million returnees by March 1946, 43 percent continued their military service, 22 percent were drafted into labor battalions for two years, 18 percent were sent home, 15 percent were sent to a forced labor camp, and 2 percent worked for repatriation commissions.
A list of Gulag penal labor camps in the USSR was created in Poland from the personal accounts of labor camp detainees of Polish citizenship. It was compiled by the government of Poland for the purpose of regulation and future financial compensation for World War II victims, and published in a decree of the Council of Ministers of Poland. [2]
List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union; Mass graves in the Soviet Union; Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East; Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939; Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union; Soviet atrocities committed against prisoners of war during World War II