Why Did The Germans Capture So Few Soviet POWs After 1942? 

Thank you very much for your nice comment! I wish others would watch this video, because it's been really neglected!

The Soviet Union was not a signature of the Geneva Convention. Germany and all the Western Allies were. The Soviet Union enslaved and brutally tortured their own citizens so the Germans weren't under any illusions about how the Soviets would treat German POW's. Most of the Red Army POW's that were "liberated" ended up in Stalin's gulags charged with treason. Those that died ended up being blamed on the Germans, just like all the Soviet civilians that were murdered by communist partisans for giving aid to the Germans and just like the murder of 16,000 Polish officers and intellectuals at Katyn Forest which the Western Allies knew for a fact were murdered by Stalin yet the Germans were charged for the massacre at Nuremberg.

@@arminiusdergrosse "Most of the Red Army POW's that were "liberated" ended up in Stalin's gulags charged with treason" Pathetic Lie. Summary data have been published on the results of the verification of released prisoners of war in the special camps of the NKVD and SMERSH from October 1941 to March 1944: out of 317,594 former prisoners of war sent for special verification to these camps, following its results, 227,618 people were returned to the Red Army and the NKVD troops (71, 6%), 8,225 people (2.5%) were sent to form assault battalions, 5,716 people (1.7%) were sent to the defense industry, 1,529 people (0.4%) were sent to hospitals without returning to special camps, 11,283 people (3.5%) were arrested, 1,779 people (0.5%) died during the inspection and 61,394 people remained under inspection at the time of drawing up the document (19.3%)/ Where did you even get the idea that most of the released prisoners of war were sent to the gulag? Or did you just make a stupid statement without doing any research on the topic?

And they were woefully unprepared to deal with such a large number of prisoners. Typhus was the biggest killer of Soviet POW's.

Andrew Allen, yes, the Soviets were learning! Thanks for the comment and for watching!

It was the Soviet regime that murdered 40 million of it's own citizens and enslaved tens of millions more. They also exterminated the intelligentsia of every nation they occupied, such as the infamous Katyn Forest Massacre in which they systematically murd€r€d all the Polish military officers, poets, lawyers, nobles, priests, et cetera. Check out Solzhenitsyn's shadow banned book, "2OO Y€ars T0g€th€r". On the other hand Germany has always been known as the "land of poets and thinkers". You've watched far too many Steven Spielberg movies my friend. Let go of the hate....

Elr James, yes, and that conclusion is totally logical too. If the Germans had simply treated their prisoners humanely, they may have had more Hiwis later. Thank you for your comment and watching!

​@@EmersusTechthey were treated humanely. You've watched too many Spielberg movies.

Red Army soldiers, if they retreated against orders, were shot to death on the battlefield by NKVD men manning what were called "blocking detachments". Also all the Soviet POW's that were "liberated" ended up in Siberian gulags charged with treason. The tens of thousands of Soviet POW's that wound up in gulags and died were counted as having died in German POW camps. No Soviet numbers pertaining to the war can be trusted. The state motto was, "truth is a mere bourgeois illusion" for Pete's sake.