Intending cross in memory of the POWs who died

Opinions differ as to how many Germans were captured by the Soviet Army. Soviet historians would count 2.5 million, and German researchers cite a figure of three million. The prisoners would die of disease, and many were executed for escape attempts and other misconduct. According to different calculations, a total of 360 thousand to 442.1 thousand Germans died in prison. Unfortunately there is no individual statistics for the Murmansk region. German prisoners of war were kept at camps in Murmansk, at Ledyanoye Lake, and in the settlements and towns of Varlamova Guba, Bolshoye Kamuzhye, Kandalaksha, Monchegorsk, and Kildinstroy. After the war, German POWs’ labour was used to restore the ruined city of Murmansk.