In 1953, many German prisoners of war, who had been held in Soviet Union camps, began returning home, with the last prisoner returning in 1956. During World War II, the Soviet Union captured approximately three million German prisoners of war, many during the Red Army’s advances in the final year of the war. These POWs were used as forced labor in the Soviet wartime economy and post-war reconstruction. #WWII #RedArmy #Victory80 #Germany | Russia Unofficial