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has gloss | eng: Approximately two million German prisoners of war were held in the Soviet Union during World War II and in the years that followed. Most of them were captured during the great advances of the Red Army in the last year of the war. In the first months of the Soviet-German war, only about 26,000 Germans were captured by Soviet forces. After the Battle of Moscow and the retreat of the German forces the number of prisoners in the Soviet prisoner of war camps rose to 120,000. When the German 6th Army surrendered in the Battle of Stalingrad in February 1943, more than 91,000 survivors became prisoners of war. Weakened by malnutrition and ill-equipped for the Russian winter many froze to death in the months following capture; only approximately 6,000 of them lived to be repatriated after the war . |
lexicalization | eng: German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union |
instance of | (noun) a person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war POW, prisoner of war |
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lexicalization | rus: Немецкие военнопленные в Советском Союзе |
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