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Not only that, there was agreement among the allies on which war criminals would be turned over to whom for punishment. So the USSR might have preferred a tria
by refurb 3y ago
Not only that, there was agreement among the allies on which war criminals would be turned over to whom for punishment. So the USSR might have preferred a trial since those who committed the worst offenses in the USSR would be turned over to them instead of being shot by the British.
A good example are the Cossacks that fought on the side of the Axis. Although they were taken as POWs by the US and UK, they were put on trains and shipped back to the USSR to their eventual deaths.
- ekianjo 3y agoMost germans POW in Russia were never returned back to their country after the war and died in russian camps.
- hef19898 3y agoThat's what people believe. It took quite a whilemlonger for German POWs in the USSR tonreturn, butvthe Adenauer government ultimately srtuckna deal, and they returned. By the way, the survival rate of those POWs wasn't that bad neither. Especially given the overall situation of the USSR at the time.