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Bratton at War 2016 Soviet Interrogation of POW

Hi guys, Sorry for the large gap in uploads. I've been busy with stuff. Before we start, sorry in advance for the twat in the pink top who gets in the way of the shot in the beginning who is obviously blind due to it being pretty obvious what was going on (3-4 people holding cameras, 3 being quite large, pointing towards where I was standing, Soviet soldiers mobilising for what was going to happen, a Soviet Sergeant walking back and forth towards where I was several times to discuss what was going to happen etc.) Anyway, off that, here is a scenario from Bratton at War 2016 where I was captured by the Soviets! This is what happened: This is very late war c. May 2nd 1945. My Impression (the German in this) was separated from his unit just after the Battle of the Bulge and due to general confusion and the Allied breakthrough in the West, found himself in Eastern Czechoslovakia. He was stationed on guard of a German camp when the Soviets then captured him in the way shown and brought him back to their camp. He was forced to tell them his unit, name, name of his commanding officer (which he successfully lied about his officers name) and what Battles he had been in. They then forced him to tell them about an atrocity he knew nothing about which happened a full 2 years before he joined up, so he did what many Germans did in this situation which was blame the SS, which did the majority of the massacres, so he mentioned the Totenkopfverbande, but in fear only managed to get out the words "SS Totenkopf" "4th Kompanie" and "300 men". For this info, his life was spared, also due to his low rank they might have assumed him to be the a conscript (which he wasn't), and let him be taken to HQ for further interrogation. He would be more likely to survive there due to high ranking officers, such as some Soviet Generals, would hold back on their men and let the Germans live as to gain proper intel. from them and make the Soviets look good and gain more support amongst German civilians and POWs and the German soldiers more likely to surrender (such as on the critical section on the Ost Wall but they were lied to and most were killed and or tortured). Some of these POWs who were treated better than some (such as the traitor General/Field Marshall Paulus) formed the basis for the East German Armed Forces after the war, but most didn't as they knew what friend the Soviets were to Germany and the Germans through the massacres in many East Prussian Villages that were liberated in January 1945, what they witnessed when they liberated places like the Katyn Woods in 1941 and reprisals taken not only against German Civilians, which usually involved the mass rape of German Women from the ages of 7 to 80 and all or most of the men being killed, but also what organisations like Smersch and many of the regular Soviet Soldiers and Commissars liked to do with POWs and what Stalin had done to many Russian people as well so many German POWs thought that "if he kills millions of his own people and his own soldiers if they retreat, then I'm no better on his side than I am a POW so I might as well remain with who I originally sided with, my country, and keep my remaining honour and dignity." Which they soon lost either in or on the way to Siberia or in dangerous operations clearing land mines and other ordinance left over or worked to death making/rebuilding factories, cities and towns and sometimes in factories and mines as workers. From what I've researched as little as 100-250,000 German POWs out of the millions captured by the Soviets made it back, the last being in 1956 (that's if they didn't keep any for longer). To give an example, out of the 90,000 Germans captured at Stalingrad only 4-5,000 made it back to Germany after the war, many being returned as late as the 1950s. My Great, Great Uncle was one of these lucky few from Stalingrad to make it back to West Germany, supposedly in 1949, due to what my Gran said, but more likely it would have been 1950 at least before he would have returned, unless he escaped. Anyway off that nasty stuff, hope you enjoy the video and a big shout out to the Soviet group for their excellent help in recreating this scene however I can't remember their name but its something like "The Guards Rifle Division". I'll probably re-upload this in better quality some time with an intro as well.