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My grandfather was in a camp toghether with Japanese pows. I guess that means he was very far to the east. He never told me much about it. If you asked him, he would shiver
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My Dad, a German went into a Russian POW camp at age 14. He escaped two years later and weighed less than 100 pounds. I can't believe he made it, but for the obvious reason, I'm glad he did.
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my great grand father was captured in the battle of stalingrad and got home by 1947, my ggmother couldnt recognize him at all when he managed to walk all the way from the gulag to east germany, he told her and to my gfather how he recieved almost no food at all and when he was dying there the guards just let him free outside the camp thinking he would fall dead in the road but with determination and some good samaritan that gave him just a bite of bread every now and then managed to get back home.
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I live in a building in Belgrade, which was built by German POWs in early 50s.
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My great grandfather was a teacher during WW2, he was eventually drafted into the Afrika Korps, got captured there and sent to the USA. He remained in a POW camp for 10 years, and he used to say those were the best years of his life lol
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When you remember purposely destroying that one building in stalingrad only to see yourself rebuilding it years later
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There was a camp for German POWs from WW2 in my home county of Spartanburg , South Carolina . There is account of a few POWs taken into the forest as a work gang . They were issued axes , shovels and such to work with . The overseers came to trust them and would sometimes leave them unattended . One day they were forgotten and left in the woods . After a couple of days it was realized that they weren't at the base camp . The overseers returned to the spot they left them and they were still there , waiting to be picked up .
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My grandfather's younger brother, a German speaking Soviet citizen born in the Ukraine, was captured at the battle of Stalingrad, fighting for the Germans. Prior to that, he had been fighting in the Red Army but captured by the Germans. As an ethnic German with Soviet citizenship, the Germans gave him the option of joining the war effort on their behalf, or going to a prison camp. So he switched sides, and that is why I assume the Soviet Union kept him in prison camp through about 1955 or so when he was eventually released to live in West Germany (this is my guess as to the reason why he wasn't let out. He had a low rank, below sergeant, so I assume he was not accused of some war crime. But I probably won't ever know one way or the other why he was kept so long after the end of the war). He said that he survived in the Soviet prison camps because of two things. First, he never believed anything his prison keepers said - they often engaged in trickery to get the prisoners to confess to certain acts. Some fell for that according to him, and well, the outcome wasn't ever good. Second, his calorie requirements were low compared to the other prisoners. He was short and had a slight build. When I saw him in 1974 while he was living in Germany, he was much smaller than me and I was 15 (I was average sized for my age). He said the larger and taller men tended to starve more quickly.
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Will you do a video about German and Japanese POW's in other Allied countries, mainly US, UK, France and China?
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My great uncle used to fondly talk about his time in a Siberian POW camp. He was an equivalent to a Major, so he wasn't made to do any hard labour. He talked about eating frozen rye bread with borscht soup, but instead of eating the bread he'd keep it to catch wild birds to eat. Sometimes the guards would even lend him their mosin to shoot swans with. He said he spent most of his time outside of leading the labourers, talking to his guards who would share their cigarettes and vodka with him in return for stories. This was when I was pretty small, so I didn't really know about how bad conditions in Soviet camps usually are, so I didn't really doubt his stories. But now I wonder if things really were that tranquil, or if he was making stuff up not to scare me. Though, I doubt his experience was that negative, as he always used to make borscht, he apparently acquired a taste for it in Siberia. He did however mention that it was constantly freezing.
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Only 5% of the 105,000 captured at Stalingrad ever made it back to Germany.
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My grandfather was injured by shrapnel and subsequently captured in Stalingrad. Spent a year as a Soviet POW. He escaped his camp and somehow made it all the way back to Germany. He got recaptured by the Allies and spent another 3 years in French captivity. He never told anyone how he managed to get back home, only that it was his only option to survive. Staying in the Soviet camp would have meant certain death for him.
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One of my uncles was held as a slave laborer by the USSR. The Soviets captured him in Manchuria. I understand that he was not even in the military; he was working in business in Manchukuo when the Soviets invaded. Fortunately, he survived.
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What a wonderful channel, thank you for posting. And as my English is not the best I find your annunciation and pronunciation very easy to follow.
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Something I have always wondered about. Thank you for your efforts.
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i know one german prisoner who ended up in sweden, my grandfather
He was captured at the battle of breslau when they were sleeping and were shiped of to russia
At the begning they were simply shipped around in train cars until one day they simply unhooked the locomotive and drove away leaving theam thiere stranded
They considred runing towards the chinese border throught mongolia but decided not to. They were picked up after a while and were shipped off to a proper prison camp
He was lucky that he was a smith becuse that meant that he was allowed to work in the smithy making parts for trucks. After a few years (cant rember when) he was relased and got back to germany were he worked for boing for a while but was not a huge fan of working thiere so he moved to sweden were he met my grandmother in 1951 and married her late 1952 and hade my father in 1953
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My great grandfather served in the Japanese army and was stationed in Manchuria when the Soviets invaded. He and his group of other soldiers were taken as POW and did labor work, such as cutting down trees and building railroad tracks in the remote areas of Russia. The Soviets also made their pows learn the Russian language and forced them to memorize communist songs. He told me how shocking it was at first seeing female officers in the Soviet army since that was unimaginable in Japan at that time and felt little bit humiliated being watched by them. He also said he had a chance to interact with the local Russian civilians and that they were really nice giving him bread and vegetables since pow werent fed enough. He also met German and Hungarian pows and would have friendly competitions to see who could get the day’s work done faster.
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Awesome Video, I always curious about this topic.
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"Only went to war with Japan at the last moment" overlooks a major Soviet offensive against Japanese forces in China that involved nearly three million soldiers on both sides.
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