Desc: Schatten des Krieges - Das vergessene Verbrechen: Directed by Andreas Christoph Schmidt. With Franziska Arnold, Max Volkert Martens, Uwe Müller, Lutz Riedel. The German army captured during WW2 five million Soviet soldiers. Of those prisoners of war, 3,3 million died by starvation, cold, hunger, sickness and murder.