The prisoners were... Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II, Part 6 - Over a million Russians were returned against their will, and most of them were either immediately killed or sent to the ...

To that effect, he set up gulags in the region, using political prisoners as slave labour to extract the minerals. Almost a million prisoners passed through Kolyma in the quarter of a century that ...

Erich Alfred Hartmann was a German fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew 1,404 combat missions and was credited with ...

Shocking images show how a Ukrainian soldier was reduced to skin and bones after a hellish stint in one of Vladimir Putin's brutal gulags. Ivan Petrovsky, 30, lost six stone during his horrific ...

Leonas Bogdanavichus was sent to the Vorkuta gulag, one of the largest and deadliest in the Soviet Union, as a prisoner, after hiding a Jewish couple in his café in Kaunas, Lithuania. Told by his ...