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3,060,000 German military personnel were taken prisoner by the USSR and that 1,094,250 died in captivity (549,360 from 1941 to April 1945; 542,911 from May 1945 to June 1950 and 1,979 from July 1950 to 1955).[4]

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    People were executed for refusing military service and after that they sent your whole family into a camp for “Sittenhaft” (kin collective punishment).

    And this is how they force conscripted men willing to die for their principles. You may be willing to die for your principles, but a principled person probably isn’t willing to let their wife and kid slowly starve to death in a Nazi forced labor camp. The Nazis were pure evil.