German prisoners on the Minsk-Smolensk highway, Jul 1944; note Russian soldier with PPSh-41 submachine gun in foreground and abandoned Tiger I heavy tank in background

Caption     German prisoners on the Minsk-Smolensk highway, Jul 1944; note Russian soldier with PPSh-41 submachine gun in foreground and abandoned Tiger I heavy tank in background ww2dbase
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1. Commenter identity confirmed Bill says:
10 Feb 2011 08:02:01 PM

THE OTHER NIGHTMARE OF RUSSIA:
THE GULAGS ORGANIZED TERROR

Millions of German soldiers were marched
into captivity, forced-labor to work, face disease, hunger and death.
starvation and death, never to see the
Fatherland again.
Out of the 95,000 men from the 6th Army only 5,000 ever returned home, after years of hell in the Gulags. 3.4 million were taken POW 1.5 million are still listed as missing.
Hundreds of thousands of German civilians
were also sent to Russia as forced-labor
2. Commenter identity confirmed Bill says:
24 Feb 2012 03:42:20 PM

PRISONER OF WAR: POW

While assigned to I Field Forces Vietnam (IFFV) Camp Holloway had a POW Camp that was located in Pleiku, South Vietnam, in the Central Highlands.
From Pleiku, you could travel East to Quy Nhon, West to Cambodia, North to Da Nang and South to Saigon that is now known as Ho Chi Minh City.

WARRIORS: ON EACH SIDE OF THE FENCE

I stopped by the POW Camp and took some photographs, the prisoners wore pajamas that were a deep red color, with matching hat most of the POWs didn't seem interested in my presence.
A few stood at the fence, I asked the guard if I could offer some cigarettes I lit the cigarettes, and passed it to some of them on a tray. One of the POWs could have been a senior NCO or maybe an Officer, said to me in English "Thank you Sergeant" that man had such a strange smile, that I've never forgot in all these past years.
This was the first time I ever a saw the enemy up close or alive be it the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese Army. In six months I would be out of the US Army and back home in Los Angeles, California, and the POW I've often wondered what became of him did he survive the war, to return home. If the circumstances had been reversed, and I was a POW, would he have offered me a cigarette...

Once again I thank the editor/ww2db for allowing me to leave my comments...
3. Commenter identity confirmed Bill says:
9 Mar 2012 01:24:45 PM

POWs AT THE MERCY OF THE ENEMY: WAR CRIMES?

At the end of World War II the U.S. Army and the French held Millions of German soldiers, kept outdoors without shelter in barbed-wire camps, with little food or water.

DIRTY LAUNDRY:

The French took half a million POWs from the US, and used them as slave labor part of war
reparations they were starved and mistreated
about quarter of a million died. The British and the Canadians used German POWs as well reports are still held to this day in state archives.
In the American camps Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand died. Since the end of WWII, why are the Russians always blamed for the deaths of millions of POWs. Since the end of WWII, reports have been destroyed, covered up, lost and censored General Eisenhower and his Staff knew what was going on the General had a hatered of anything German. Europe was in total ruin millions had died, millions were homeless the pain and suffering continued long after the guns fell silent...

I thank the editor/ww2db for allowing me to leave this comment.

Suggested Reading:

OTHER LOSSES
By James Bacque
Published by
Stoddart Publishing Co Limited (1989)
34 Lesmill Road
Toronto, Canada M3B 2T6
ISBN 0-7737-2269-6
4. Anonymous says:
30 Oct 2015 03:38:13 AM

What about millions soviet soldiers and civilians killed in german camps of death? Do you know anything about it?
Did you hear about Maidanek, Buhenwald, Aushwiz, Saksenhausen?

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