http://worldwartwo.darkbb.com/pows-f26/-t1.htm Discuss prisoners of war and their treatment. Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:46:10 GMT 10 http://i49.servimg.com/u/f49/12/99/78/32/72036813.gif http://worldwartwo.darkbb.com/pows-f26/-t1.htm http://worldwartwo.darkbb.com/pows-f26/death-marches-t36.htm anguspm Wondering if anyone has any information on the death marches that occurred from Feb 45 onwards when POW camps were being evacuated in the East and POW´s being moved towards centralised holding points in Greater Germany. I remember reading accounts of some of the prisoners having to endure awful conditions from sleeping in the fields and eating grass, to marching on little more than a potatoe between 8 each day. The part that I´m really interested in is if there was ever a written order for the ... POWs Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:46:10 GMT http://worldwartwo.darkbb.com/pows-f26/death-marches-t36.htm#63 http://worldwartwo.darkbb.com/pows-f26/death-marches-t36.htm http://worldwartwo.darkbb.com/pows-f26/german-prisoners-treated-by-soviets-t24.htm Admin I suppose that it's pretty common knowledge that the Germans and Russians thought little of each other and treated their respective prisoners badly. This was made worse by the fact that the Soviet Union had refused to sign the Geneva Conventions and apparently did not want their prisoners protected. And so they treated Axis prisoners equally poorly. Of the 90,000+ German/Axis prisoners taken at Stalingrad only 5000-6000 ever returned home. Many of those were not repatriated until 1955, ... POWs Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:38:57 GMT http://worldwartwo.darkbb.com/pows-f26/german-prisoners-treated-by-soviets-t24.htm#29 http://worldwartwo.darkbb.com/pows-f26/german-prisoners-treated-by-soviets-t24.htm