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Re: Treatment of German POW's by the Soviets
All POW taken in Stalingrad by the Soviets were treated as war criminal and like it's was mentioned few of them saw home ever again (of course the barbaric and cruel treatment of German toward the Doviet population and POW didn't help to soften the treatment toward the German POW).
However there were some that escape that fate, "The free officers comitee" was a organisation of German anti-Nazi POW that were set by the Soviets and Frei Deutchland (the organisation of the German Communists in the USSR) it's was mostly compose of officers, they deal mostly in anti-Nazi propoganda to the German POW, the offer of it's leader, General der Artilery Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach to essemble a German anti-Nazi army of German POW was rejected by the Soviets.
Most of the officers member return to the DDR after the war and play a crucial role in the building of it's army, the NVA.
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