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I just finished watching the Pianist and at the end of the movie, they're giving the eventual fates of certain characters and a German officer that helps the main character is said to have died in a Russian POW camp in 1952.

1952?!?!

The Russiands were holding POWs that long afer the war?? I thought that once a war is over, POWs need to be repatriated ASAP?

Anyone have any info on this?
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Stravo wrote: 1952?!?!

The Russiands were holding POWs that long afer the war?? I thought that once a war is over, POWs need to be repatriated ASAP?

Anyone have any info on this?
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Essentially, the Russians kept the Germans until 1956 when they
released the last of their POWs from the camps. IIRC, the stalingrad
survivors of the 6th army didn't see home until '56
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I learned about this within the last 2-3 years, it shocked me too. I thought WTF? Then I thought Im so glad I grew up here and not in WW2 europe.
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I remember in the '90's, they released what was technically (hopefully) the last German POW, as he was captured, whilst in civilian clothing I can assume, and sinece he spoke no Russian, they just threw him into an insane asylum.
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Gandalf wrote:I remember in the '90's, they released what was technically (hopefully) the last German POW, as he was captured, whilst in civilian clothing I can assume, and sinece he spoke no Russian, they just threw him into an insane asylum.
He wasn't german. He was a Hungarian/Romanian. or something.
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Stravo wrote:
Anyone have any info on this?
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MKSheppard wrote:
Gandalf wrote:I remember in the '90's, they released what was technically (hopefully) the last German POW, as he was captured, whilst in civilian clothing I can assume, and sinece he spoke no Russian, they just threw him into an insane asylum.
He wasn't german. He was a Hungarian/Romanian. or something.
Sorry, my bad. I did see the story like ten years ago.
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Stravo wrote:I just finished watching the Pianist and at the end of the movie, they're giving the eventual fates of certain characters and a German officer that helps the main character is said to have died in a Russian POW camp in 1952.

1952?!?!

The Russiands were holding POWs that long afer the war?? I thought that once a war is over, POWs need to be repatriated ASAP?

Anyone have any info on this?
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MKSheppard wrote:Essentially, the Russians kept the Germans until 1956 when they
released the last of their POWs from the camps. IIRC, the stalingrad
survivors of the 6th army didn't see home until '56
I might want to add that as a people, the Russians have a memory as long as that of the Middle East, so they didn't forget WWII easily. And they really enjoy revenge when it is safe for them.
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The Russian's also held US airmen in POW camps. Does this really surprise anyone?
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My uncle's father fought with the Hungarian Army during the war and wasn't released 'till '48 or '54 (I forget which).
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Hell, Russia had US POWs from Korea and they never released them.
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Nathan F wrote:The Russian's also held US airmen in POW camps. Does this really surprise anyone?
And also stole their B-29s and copied them. In WWII that is.
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Captain Lennox wrote:
Nathan F wrote:The Russian's also held US airmen in POW camps. Does this really surprise anyone?
And also stole their B-29s and copied them. In WWII that is.
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Nathan F wrote:
And, Voila, you have the TU-2!
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I heard thats where several MIAs from Vietnam may have wound up in the USSR
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They totally copied the B-29 right down to Boeing on the foot pedals and a small hole in one of the wings
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Typhonis 1 wrote:They totally copied the B-29 right down to Boeing on the foot pedals and a small hole in one of the wings
You sure about Boeing on the foot pedals? Seems a bit excessive.
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Typhonis 1 wrote:I heard thats where several MIAs from Vietnam may have wound up in the USSR
Nope, thats just Hollywood and conspiracy theorists talking. All US soldiers from Vietnam have been accounted for.
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Alyeska wrote:
Typhonis 1 wrote:I heard thats where several MIAs from Vietnam may have wound up in the USSR
Nope, thats just Hollywood and conspiracy theorists talking. All US soldiers from Vietnam have been accounted for.
Really now? Then why are all those families out there still trying to find out the fates of their loved ones?
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In addition to holding Germans for over a decade, the Soviet Union took over 400,000 Japanese POW's in Manchuria. Less then one thousand, all brainwashed with communist propaganda, where ever returned.
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Stormbringer wrote:
Alyeska wrote:
Typhonis 1 wrote:I heard thats where several MIAs from Vietnam may have wound up in the USSR
Nope, thats just Hollywood and conspiracy theorists talking. All US soldiers from Vietnam have been accounted for.
Really now? Then why are all those families out there still trying to find out the fates of their loved ones?
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Vympel wrote:
You sure about Boeing on the foot pedals? Seems a bit excessive.

The Soviets once manufactured a run of American gas mask clones, every last one of which had the same scratch as the stolen one they copied. As for the pedal, they likely make a mode of it and it would have taken more effort to alter the marking them leave it be. The Tu-4 sucked anyway.
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