There was kind of a throw away comment made in class that German POWs that the Soviets held were not released "well into the 50's".
How could this have been allowed? It seems like if we were trying to perhaps rectify past mistakes, like the reparations that Germany had to pay and such from the first World War, why would any of the allies allow the Soviets to hold these prisoners for such a long time after victory in Europe? Is this a common practice that I'm not aware of?
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Well, for starters, no one was really happy with the Germans after the war, especially with the discovery of the concentration camps. But Russia denied that it had captured any German POWs, and the world being what it was, no one was in a position to actively question that.
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