[alexander_busek]

[...] as they found out when they were both repatriated from German POW camps or simply returned home as veterans when the war ended.

Am currently reading Nicholas Stargardt's "The German War" (which I can wholeheartedly recommend).

Interestingly, there were more Soviet "Fremdarbeiter" working together with and for the Nazis than there were Soviet P.O.W.s. - sometimes quite willingly.

There were also entire brigades - called "Legionen" - of Ukrainian, Baltic, Muslim, and Tatar nationalists who had believed that it would be to their benefit to fight for the Nazis.

Regards,

[rlmorel]

I did not realize the scope of this until I read the Gulag Archipelago.

“Tenners”. Standard sentence, usually converted to a 20 year sentence before they were ready to be released (if they were still alive) on any pretext...or no pretext.

What a sad thing...to have gone through that viscous fighting with the Nazis, only to have your own country imprison you for being exposed to the American or British armies, or being captured by the Germans.

And the Germans treated their Soviet POWs just as bad or even worse than the Jews in their concentration camps.

What a terrible, sad, and pathetic thing.