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  2. German prisoners of war in northwest Europe - Wikipedia

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    Some of the German soldiers who were captured during the Battle of Aachen in October 1944. More than 2.8 million German soldiers surrendered on the Western Front between D-Day (June 6, 1944) and the end of April 1945; 1.3 million between D-Day and March 31, 1945; [1] and 1.5 million of them in the month of April. [2]

  3. German atrocities committed against prisoners of war during ...

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    It was the German treatment of Soviet prisoners of war that became most infamous: Soviet POWs held by Nazi Germany, primarily in the custody of the German Army, were routinely starved and subjected to deadly conditions. Of the nearly six million who were captured, around three million died during their imprisonment.

  4. German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    German POWs marching through Kyiv under USSR guard A group of recently released German prisoners-of-war waiting to be sent back home, 1949. In the first six months of Operation Barbarossa, few Germans were captured by Red Army forces.

  5. Rheinwiesenlager - Wikipedia

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    The Rheinwiesenlager (German: [ˈʁaɪnˌviːzn̩ˌlaːɡɐ], Rhine meadow camps) were a group of 19 concentration camps built in the Allied-occupied part of Germany by the U.S. Army to hold captured German soldiers at the close of the Second World War.

  6. German prisoners of war in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As the United States sent millions of soldiers overseas, the resulting shortage of labor eventually meant that German POWs worked toward the Allied war effort by helping out in canneries, mills, farms, and other places deemed a minimal security risk. [24] [23] A typical day for a German prisoner in Garden Grove, California: [25] 5:30 am - Reveille

  7. Joseph Beyrle - Wikipedia

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    He was captured by the Germans and sent east as a prisoner of war. After several unsuccessful attempts, Beyrle escaped from the German Stalag III-C in January 1945 and joined a Soviet tank battalion under the command of Aleksandra Samusenko. [1] Wounded, he was evacuated and eventually made his way to the United States in April 1945.

  8. German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II - Wikipedia

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    In the early phases of the war, following German occupation of much of Europe, Germany also found itself unprepared for the number of POWs it held, and released many (particularly enlisted personnel) on parole (as a result, it released all the Dutch, all Flemish Belgian, nine-tenths of the Poles, and nearly a third of the French captives).

  9. Chenogne massacre - Wikipedia

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    According to his sources, US soldiers shot about 80 German soldiers after they had surrendered (roughly one for each American killed in the Malmedy massacre). [11] Harland-Dunaway refers to General George S. Patton's diary in which the latter confirms that the Americans "...also murdered 50 odd German med [sic]. I hope we can conceal this".