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By the way, you know what happened to him after 1949?

In fact, all the prisoners "released" (rapatriirovali) only in 55-56 years.
May 5, 1950 TASS broadcast of the completion of the repatriation of German prisoners of war: 1 939 063 German prisoners of war returned to their homeland, the Soviet Union were the convicted 9 717, 3 815 people under investigation and 14 cases of prisoners of war.
4 July 1955 the Commission decided to reconcile with the SED Central Committee the question of whether repatriation to East Germany and West Germany in accordance with their residence of all persons convicted in the Soviet Union of German citizens, and offered to release most of them from further punishment, but another part of the perpetrators of serious crimes in the territory of the USSR, to convey as war criminals, respectively, the authorities of the GDR and West Germany.
In 1955-1956. from prison in the Soviet Union had been prematurely released and repatriated in the GDR - 3 104 in Germany - 6 432 people, including 273 people as war criminals are handed over to the GDR government, 471 people - to the Government of Germany, 28 Germans were detained on request of the State Security Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, 4 people left in connection with the excitation of an application for the admission of Soviet citizenship.