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)
“My innocent Aryan warriors”
Wehrmacht was not a Nazi organisation. Members were free to join the party but they were not under any obligation. The SS was an explicitly Nazi army but completely separate from the Wehrmacht.
Very cool clean Wehrmacht myth
Good to know world isnt a leftist echo chamber, you can share nazi propaganda too
BTW, 3 million Soviet PoWs were starved, systematically worked to death or outright executed by the nazis. When you compare it with the deaths among PoWs of other nationalities, let alone deaths in captivity of other armies, it becomes very obvious that members of the Red Army were systematically targeted for extermination when they fell into German hands.
I think the Soviets give em 66% chance as POW to survive
On the other hand, Nazis gave like 10% chance to survive
IIRC, 60% of Soviet PoWs died in captivity in much shorter period of time.
Not to mention the Commissar Order. Soviet commissars were to be immediately killed on sight or in the event of capture. The thing about war crimes is they go both ways. You start killing POWs, the other side has no reason to not do the same.
If the Germans didn’t want their POWs killed, maybe they should have thought about that before issuing an order offering no quarter.