Adolf to Azov

As World War Two drug on, the red army advanced closer and closer to Berlin. Many people who help the Germans tried escaping to the west, and into the hands of the allies, where they though that they would be treated more fairly. Millions of refugees from Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and the Baltic states, all fell into the hands of the allies. With this the idea that the western allies were going to treat them better. Even though life as a captured POW wasn’t great, many of these prisoners asked that they not be sent back to the Soviet Union, after the war was over.

It became clear that there was much distain for the Soviet Union and the Bolsheviks in eastern Europe. With this large number of captured personal, and with similar interest as the United States, at the time, America began using this large number of POWs to recruit from. The initial idea was to use this pool of prisoners to recruit espionage agents from, to help monitors post-World War Two activities through.

Many of these prisoners who were recruited were placed in Munich, in west Germany so that they could be under the watchful eye of the Allies and could be easily reactivated once needed. However conditions were subpart, and most of the men were unable to get employment and live destitute lives in captivity.