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Unlike Gulag camps, located primarily in remote areas (mostly in Siberia), most of the POW camps after the war were located in the European part of the Soviet Union (with notable exceptions of the Japanese POW in the Soviet Union), where the prisoners worked on restoration of the country's infrastructure destroyed during the war: roads ...
Popov was released in 1954, after the death of Stalin, and returned to Bulgaria. [163] He wrote his autobiographical account in the book From the Leipzig trial to the Siberia camps (От Лайпцигския процес в Сибирските лагери, Изток-Запад, София, България, 2012 ISBN 978-619-152-025-1).
[citation needed] Another estimate for the death rate in the Soviet camp was 56.5%. [2]: 200–201 A 79% estimate of death rate has been suggested for the Italian soldiers held by the Soviet Union: (estimate by Thomas Schlemmer ). According to Schlemmer, only 10,032 POWs were eventually repatriated out of approximately 48,000 that arrived in ...
The death rate of German soldiers held by Soviet Union has been estimated at 15% by Mark Edele, [31] and at 35.8% by Niall Ferguson. [35] An even higher estimate of death rate has been suggested for the Italian soldiers held by the Soviet Union: 79% (estimate by Thomas Schlemmer ) [36]: 153 or 56.5%.
US soldiers were also held in the camp, a majority of whom were captured during the Korean War. [12] Many prisoners did not survive their internment and died by freezing to death in the cold climate, starvation (food was scarce) or being worked to death. Prisoners were fed rye bread, buckwheat, meat, fish and potatoes but in very small amounts.
Stalin's Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers became Hitler's Collaborators, 1941-1945. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-251914-6. Latyschew, Artem (2021). "History of oblivion, recognition and study of former prisoners of war in the USSR and Russia".
Locations of the camps included Strzałkowo, Pikulice, Wadowice, and Tuchola. Due to epidemics raging at the time, made worse by the very bad sanitary conditions in which the prisoners were held, largely due to overcrowding, between 16,000 and 20,000 Soviet soldiers held in the Polish POW camps died, out of the total of 80,000 to 85,000 prisoners.
German advances through 5 December 1941, with large groups of encircled Red Army soldiers in red. Nazi Germany and its allies invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. [4] [5] The Nazi leadership believed that war with its ideological enemy was inevitable [6] due to the Nazi dogma that conquering territory to the east—called living space ()—was essential to Germany's long-term survival, [7 ...