Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union was considered by the Soviet Union to be part of German war reparations for the damage inflicted by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union during the Axis-Soviet
The mother of a prisoner thanks Konrad Adenauer upon his return from Moscow, September 14, 1955. Adenauer had succeeded in concluding negotiations about the release to Germany, by the end of the year, of 15,000 German civilians and prisoners of war, more than a decade after the war with Germany had ended on May 8, 1945.
February, 1958. German scientists repatriated from Sukhumi.
August 1947, German women and girls released from Soviet captivity wait in 14 days of quarantine at the Polte Nord returnee camp, before finally going home.
A group of recently released German POWs waiting to be sent back home, before their repatriation in 1949
Statistics for German World War II military casualties are divergent. The wartime military casualty figures compiled by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht through 31 January 1945 are often cited by milita
Grave of German soldiers fallen during the invasion of Poland in the town of Końskie
German War Cemetery in France
Graves of German soldiers in Maloarkhangelsk, February 1943
The corpse of a German soldier at a collection point after the Battle of Stalingrad, February 1943