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Re: Why so long ,,??
In the case of German prisoners taken by the British and Americans, several books (and German autobiographies) refer to the captors establishing whether their prisoners were just soldiers doing their duty or hard-line Nazis. Those who were considered 'just' soldiers got released quite quickly, while those who were hard-line were held longer, presumably so the authorities could 'rehabilitate' them.
We should not forget the chaos at the end of the war with tens of thousands of displaced civilians and soldiers. A lot of bad things happened at that time on all sides.
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