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)

lemmitor “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

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      7deadlyfetishes was a famous chapo subreddit users that migrated to hexbear, he would always sign his posts with his username, some years ago in a soldier struggle session about vietnam GIs he was defending them but then he bring up the SS and the concentration camp guards as examples of innocent people forced to fight (both were volunteer armies) and because of nazi apologia he was sitebanned and to this day he hasnt learned and claims he was on the right

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      frequent chapo sub and later hexbear poster who signed all his posts, somehow wound up going all in on clean wehrmacht myth and got banned, brainworms have worsened on twitter