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Originally Posted by Jayems
When I worked at the hospital, I met a real life Nazi soldier. He was older, but more than willing to discuss his experiences with me. I had a seat, and had a nice little chat since I'm a war buff.
He was telling me about how he was captured. He was in the battle of Stalingrad, and said he was up in this building with his fellow soldiers, when a wall of Russians came and basically killed everything in sight. He was shot five times, and promptly pulled up his shirt and showed me the scars.
He was soon taken to a camp where he said the Russians would take 10 of them every morning at random and execute them. Somehow, he was one of only about 300 who survived the camp.
I wish I remembered the camp he stayed at and more of the story, but it was a really interesting hour long conversation.
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It's unfortunate he was on the Eastern front. Those Nazi soldiers captured by commonwealth forces were typically sent to places like Kananaskis where they were allowed to do things like go skiing unguarded and were just "expected" to come back to camp from the slopes. So many German POWs loved their POW experience in Canada, that they decided to move here after the war.