as the second world war came to a close German soldiers found themselves facing a new reality the Allies wasted no time in demanding that Germany provide millions of workers for reparations Joseph stalins at the Baha'i demanding four million German Workers at the Terran conference in 1943. Churchill and Roosevelt further agreed to the use of forced labor at the Yalta Conference in 1945 German prisoners in the Soviet Union were among the millions of Germans forced to work under brutal conditions resulting in up to 1 million casualties ethnic Germans in Poland were sent to labor camps as
slave labor and in Western Europe even sick or unfit German prisoners were used to clear deadly minefields the consequences of War could be complex and far-reaching and for some German soldiers the end of World War II mucked only the beginning of a new struggle
