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“After World War II, the Soviet Union imprisoned and killed millions of Germans in the Gulag system. Estimates vary, but it's believed that between 1945 and 1956, at least 2 million German civilians and soldiers were sent to Soviet labor camps.” “When factoring in the deaths during transport-often in overcrowded, unsanitary cattle cars-the total number of German fatalities skyrockets. Conservative estimates place the mortality rate during these forced marches at around 10-15%, but some sources suggest it could have been as high as 30%. If we add those who perished en route to the camps, the overall German death toll in Soviet custody jumps to approximately 1.7 million to 2.5 million.” “This accounts for both those who died in transit due to exposure, starvation, and disease, as well as the roughly 1.2 million who succumbed to the gulags' brutal conditions post-arrival.”