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I am pretty sure that alot of Axis prisioners seemed to not return to their homes till along time after the war (if they were one of the few who did). This doesn't include the whole communities that were banished on his orders. And I seem to recall the Russian soldiers were not overly polite to the locals when they occupied areas near/inside Germany.
What does it have to do with trying high ranking German officials for war crimes? The treatment of POWs, and thelooting/raping/murdering on occupied territories are completely different things.
While I by no means agree with what the Russians did (they did that in my country, too, and my grandfather spent 5 years in Siberia, so I know what I am talking about from first hand accounts), just take a look at how eagerly Mike approved of the slaughter of more than a million civilians as collective punishnent. Now imagine yourself in place of a Russian soldier who just witnessed the atrocities the Germans committed in the SU. 17 million!!! civilian, and 3 million soldier dead . That's twice as many as killed in the gas chambers total, and almost 4 times as many Jews murdered. They saw it first_hand; it's understandable thay they didn't behave themselves.
