Soviet prisoners of war may refer to Soviet POW in the following contexts:
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Prisoners of war, foreign — During World War II, the Red Army captured more than 2.5 million Germans and Austrians and held them as prisoners of war. It also took 766,000 soldiers prisoner from the armies of Hitler’s Hungarian, Italian, and Romanian allies. Treatment of… … Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
Prisoners of War, Soviet — The Wehrmacht captured more than 4.4 million Soviet forces, most in the dark days of 1941–1942. More than a million of these died of hunger and disease in 1941–1942. Joseph Stalin’s son Yakov, a junior officer, was captured and later killed… … Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union — There were two waves of the Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union during the World War II: POW of the Winter War (1939 1940) and prisoners of the Continuation War. [V. Galitsky (1997) Finnish Prisoners of War in NKVD Camps (1939 1953) ISBN … Wikipedia
Polish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union (after 1939) — As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. Thousands of them were executed; over 20,000 Polish military personnel and civilians perished in the Katyn … Wikipedia
Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union — Over 60,000 Italian prisoners of war were taken captive by the Red Army in the Second World War. Almost all were captured during the decisive Soviet Operation Little Saturn offensive in December 1942 which annihilated the Italian Army in Russia ( … Wikipedia
War crimes of the Wehrmacht — are those carried out by traditional German armed forces during World War II. While the principal perpetrators of the Holocaust amongst German armed forces were the Nazi German political armies (the SS Totenkopfverbände and particularly the… … Wikipedia
Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union — By the end of World War II there were from 510,000 to 600,000Japanese POWs in the Soviet Union and Mongolia interned to work in labor camps. Of them, about 10% died, mostly during winter of 1945 1946. [… … Wikipedia
Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees — The Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees (Russian: Главное управление по делам военнопленных и интернированных НКВД/МВД СССР, ГУПВИ, GUPVI) was a department of NKVD (later MVD) in charge of handling of foreign… … Wikipedia
Soviet historiography — is the history of the academic study of history as written by scholars of the Soviet Union. [It is not the history of the Soviet Union. See definitions of historiography for more details.] Soviet history mostly served to promote Communist… … Wikipedia
World War I prisoners of war in Germany — The situation of World War I prisoners of war in Germany is an aspect of the conflict little covered by historical research. However, the number of soldiers imprisoned reached a little over seven million [Jochen Oltmer estimates a figure between… … Wikipedia
