“Of the 91,000 German POWs, captured at Stalingrad, only 6,000 would live to see Germany again.”
Wow, I never knew that. I guess the 85,000 were summarily executed or worked to death in the gulags.
Some were sent east to the gulags. A large proportion were sent to Beketovka, a prisoner of war camp near Stalingrad. The conditions and lack of provisions in the camp made it into a death factory.
The Soviets marched the Stalingrad POWs from Stalingrad to Siberia in February. Would have looked a lot like the Bataan Death March except at 20 below zero and 3 foot of snow & ice. Once in the camps in Siberia, they were worked to death.