May
4, 1950
Soviets
release German WWII POW’s
The Soviet
Union announced that it had completed repatriation
of all German prisoners of war who had been captured during World War II, and
that the last group of 17,538 Germans concluded the return of 1,939,063 German
POWs. West German chancellor Konrad
Adenauer, pointing out that the TASS news agency had reported in 1945 that
there were 3.5 million German POWs held in the USSR, demanded to know what had
happened to more than 1.5 million still missing and the U.S. State Department
described the Soviet claim as "fantastic and absurd", and that an
estimated 200,000 German POWs were still prisoners in Soviet labor camps
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