[Jim O]

I suppose that it's pretty common knowledge that the Germans and Russians thought little of each other and treated their respective prisoners badly. This was made worse by the fact that the Soviet Union had refused to sign the Geneva Conventions and apparently did not want their prisoners protected. And so they treated Axis prisoners equally poorly.

Of the 90,000+ German/Axis prisoners taken at Stalingrad only 5000-6000 ever returned home. Many of those were not repatriated until 1955, a full 10 years after the war's end.