“War and the Working Class, Moscow publication, asserts that German labor must be used to restore the destruction wrought by the German Army in Europe…In an article entitled Labor Reparations, it contends that Using German labor for this purpose will achieve effective military and economic disarmament of Germany.”
Such thoughts never went any farther with the majority of the Allies. The Soviets thought their proposal was simply splendid and held on to most of their German POWs until 1953.
ABOVE: Nazi POWs being paraded down the streets of Moscow (this was forbidden under the Geneva Convention)
