be higher than those reported by the USSR. Richard Overy in The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia puts total number of German POWs captured by the USSR at 2,880,000 of whom 356,000 died. However, in his Russia's War Richard Overy maintains that according to Russian sources 356,000 out of 2,388,000 POWs died in Soviet captivity. A research project by German military historian Rüdiger Overmans stated that 363,000 German POWs died in Soviet custody; Overmans cited the statistics of the West German Maschke commission that put the number of German POWs taken by the Soviets at 3,060,000, of whom 1,090,000 died in captivity. Overmans also believed it was possible, although not provable, that 700,000 German military personnel reported missing actually died in Soviet custody; Overmans estimates the "maximum" death toll of German POWs in the USSR at 1.0 million, he maintains that among those reported as missing were men who actually died as POWs. See also Forced labour under German rule during World War II and Ostarbeiters Forced labor of Hungarians in the Soviet Union Forced labor of Germans after World War II Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR Foreign forced labor in the Soviet Union Flight and expulsion of Germans from Romania during and after World War II Forced labor in Germany during World War II Journey Back to Youth OST-Arbeiter - Eastern workers - about foreign forced labor in Germany Polish Communist forced labor camps The Hunger Angel, 2009 novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Herta Müller As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me, 2001 film about German escapee from the Gulag Morgenthau Plan References Sources Павел Полян, Не по своей воле... (Pavel Polian, Against Their Will... A History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR), ОГИ Мемориал, Moscow, 2001, Pavel Polian-Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR Central European University Press 2003 ISBN Kurt W. Böhme - Gesucht wird - Die dramtische Geschichte des Suchdienstes Süddeutscher Verlag, München 1965 Dokumentation der Vertreibung der Deutschen aus Ost-Mitteleuropa./ Bearb. von T. Schieder. Bd. 1–5. Wolfenbattel, 1953–1961 Die Deutschen Vertreibungsverluste. Bevolkerungsbilanzen fuer die deutschen Vertreibungsgebiete 1939/50. Wiesbaden, 1958 Rhode G. Phasen und Formen der Massenzwangswanderungen in Europa. // Die Vertriebenen in Westdeutschland. Bd. 1. Kiel, 1959. Karner, Stefan, Im Archipel GUPVI. Kriegsgefangenschaft und Internierung in der Sowjetunion 1941-1956. Wien-München 1995. Sharkov, Anatoli, GUPVI Archipelago: Prisoners of