I have to disagree with Jim M who appears to be ill-informed on the matter. I have met in person with German veterans who were post-May 1945 POWs in Poland in POW/slave labor camps operated by the Poles and not the Russians. These POWs had to work in coal mines and were worked to death in the same fashion as the worst slave labor camp that the Germans might have operated. In the Sudentenland thousands of retreating or surrendered German soldiers were shot or beaten to death by Czech "militia" groups.

John