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https://www.deutschlandmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/14011956_Kriegsgefangene-768x432.jpg600338Well over three million German prisoners of war (POWs) were being held in Soviet camps by 1945. Whilst some two million had returned home by the early 1950s, the fate of many others remained a matter of uncertainty. When he was invited to Moscow for talks in September 1955, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer took the opportunity to negotiate the return of around 10,000 POWs. [...]