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A female Soviet soldier has been captured by the Wehrmacht. 1941
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Because the Germans didn't have separate POW camps for women, if they weren't executed they were mostly handed over to the SS and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
She was very likely raped and murdered as that was what the Wehrmacht tended to do on the eastern front
And minutes after this picture, she was probably marched off to be shot or hung. Maybe if she was lucky, they shipped her off to be a prostitute at a concentration camp. To be clear, the Nazis HATED the Flintenweiber (rifle broad or rifle sluts).
The female Sovjet Pow were subject to the usual treatment, either shot on sight or interned in a concentration camp
Tbh that was pretty much what happened to them if they were liberated by Stalin as well after being captured
Regarding the liberated POWs, the Soviet archives show that most of the claims were bullshit. Some 4 million liberated POWs were transferred to filtration camps where they convalesced while they were checked for collaboration (eg collaborators who were informants, collaborators who helped run the camps and even collaborators who had joined the German military to get out of the camps, plus anti-socials who thrived in the camps by stealing food, murdering etc their fellow POWs). Something like 93% of POWs went through the filtration checks with no problems and were demobilised or returned to units.
Of the 7% who were collaborators, the sentence for the vast majority was being stripped of rank and being sent to penal battalions (note that this wasn’t a death sentence and most were eventually transferred back to regular units*). The most serious cases of collaboration went to the gulags after sentencing with around 2000 being sent directly to the tender mercies of the NKVD.
I’m currently reading the memoirs of a Siberian who was conscripted at the outbreak of war. He had hoped to become a pilot because he had recently joined a flying club, but he was assigned to the army because of his experience with a hunting rifle. Anyway, he eventually ended up assigned to a penal battalion (not as a prisoner, but as a regular soldier). He writes that his squad included a former General who had been stripped of rank to a Private.
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