Some 9 million Germans were POWs, many of whom were kept as forced laborers for several years to provide restitution to the countries Germany had devastated in the war, and some industrial equipment was removed as reparations.
大約900萬德國人是戰俘，其中許多人被迫作為強迫勞動者數年，為德國在戰爭中遭受破壞的國家提供恢復原狀，並取消了一些工業設備作為賠償。