I’m amazed that there are still survivors of the Siege of Stalingrad. The battle was brutal beyond belief for both sides. I wonder if there are any German survivors of the battle as most of them were marched ruthlessly to Siberia.
I heard only about 5000 of the captured Stalingrad prisoners ever made it back to Germany.
Of the 500,00 that surrendered something like on 50,000 returned. Remember is was only Germans that were cut off in the 6th Army. There were also Romanians, Hungarians, and Italians. I wonder how many of them got home.
Also was it something like 1956 that Axis POWs were finally repatriated from the Soviet Union. I do remember in some 1970s era Congressional hearing (I think on Cuban relations!) where witness claimed there were WW II German POWs still held and working as slaves in the Cuba.