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That'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.