On the first day in the came, the allies see the Russians marching off to go chop down some trees. Several prisoners try to blend in with the Russians, but they all get caught.
Then, nothing. We don't see the Russians any more in the movie. They just disappear. What happened to them?
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I blame autocorrect.
You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.
They took them out to the woods and shot them
shareThey were a labour detail and probably did not stay in this camp anyway. Russian POWs were generally segregated from those of other nations.
In February 1945 Russian POWs, one of them a general, escaped from Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Most were killed by Austrian civilians rounded up by the Nazis to look for them.
Many Russian POWs were left to starve to death, especially in 1941 and the first half of 1942. Goering joked during a conference about some of them killing and eating a German guard dog, a conversation entered into the record at the Nuremberg trials.
"Chicken soup - with a *beep* straw."
They beat up their nazi guards and walked back to the U.S.S.R.
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