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Inside Soviet Filtration Camps: How the NKVD Treated Waffen SS Prisoners

From 1942 onward, the NKVD developed rigorous systems to identify and separate Waffen SS prisoners from regular German soldiers. Seen as ideological threats rather than mere POWs, SS men were held in ...
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THIS was the REAL LIFE of an SS soldier in the Third Reich

Beyond regime propaganda, an SS soldier’s daily life mixed extreme discipline, relentless indoctrination, and constant surveillance. The SS (Schutzstaffel) was[...] ...