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The total number of deaths for prisoners of war from the Soviet Union greatly exceeded those for prisoners from other nationalities.[1][2] The estimated mortality rate for Soviet prisoners range from 43% to 63%.[3] In contrast, estimates of the mortality rate for German prisoners captured by the Soviets range from 15%[4] to 36%[5]: 375 (though the rate for Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union is at least 58%),[6] and the rate for Allied prisoners in Japanese camps is estimated at 27%.[4] Though the Germans committed atrocities against other Allied POWs,[7] mortality rates for for Allied prisoners of war taken by the Germans were lower, varying from 1% for British and American prisoners 7% for Italian military internees.[3]
- ^ Gerlach 2016, pp. 235–236.
- ^ Moore 2022, p. 204.
- ^ a b Edele 2016, p. 375.
- ^ a b Edele 2016, p. 376.
- ^ Ferguson, Niall (2004). "Prisoner Taking and Prisoner Killing in the Age of Total War: Towards a Political Economy of Military Defeat". War in History. 11 (2): 148–92. doi:10.1191/0968344504wh291oa. S2CID 159610355.
- ^ Giusti, pp. 90–98.
- ^ Scheck, Raffael (July 2021). "The treatment of western prisoners of war in Nazi Germany: Rethinking reciprocity and asymmetry". War in History. 28 (3): 635–655. doi:10.1177/0968344520913577. ISSN 0968-3445.