ABSTRACT
The most tragic chapter in the saga of Red Army generals who suffered captivity in Germany during the Second World War involves those who were condemned and arrested when they returned to their homeland. After surviving the most brutal of prison regimes, these officers suffered the additional gross indignity of being scorned, persecuted, and ultimately, killed by the state they had served. Worse still, most suffered this fate even though they had served their political masters loyally. The fate that this group of generals suffered clearly indicates that the horrors of the prewar purge of the Red Army officer corps, which had continued during wartime, also endured well after war’s end.
