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EDIT: According to some sources, the Soviets captured 3.5 million Axis servicemen (excluding Japanese) of which more than a million died.[47] One specific example of the tragic fate of the German POWs was after the Battle of Stalingrad, during which the Soviets captured 91,000 German troops, many already starved and ill, of whom only 5,000 survived the war.

German soldiers were for many years after the war kept as forced labour. The last German POWs (those who were sentenced for war crimes, sometimes without sufficient reasons) were released by the Soviets in 1955, only after Joseph Stalin had died.[48] At least 54,000 Italian POWs died in Russia, with a mortality rate of 84.5%. (Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisone...rians.2C_Finns)

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