A female Soviet soldier has been captured by the Wehrmacht. 1941

 A female Soviet soldier has been captured by the Wehrmacht. 1941

The Wehrmacht actually had direct orders to kill any female soldiers they came after as they saw such a thing as unimaginable and degenerate.

Do we know what happened to her? She was shot. 

Given she obviously has not been shot yet, she would likely have been sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp, where she likely died of starvation. The Germans didn't dare to kill her because she said "How dare you!"

Female Soviet soldiers are one of the greatest examples of the myth of the "clean Wehrmacht" being tarnished. Several Wehrmacht generals were so insulted by fighting women that they ordered them to be executed immediately, including Güyher von Kluge and Walther von Reichenau. Because the Germans didn't have separate POW camps for women, if they weren't executed they were mostly handed over to the SS and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.

She was very likely raped and murdered as that was what the Wehrmacht tended to do on the eastern front

And minutes after this picture, she was probably marched off to be shot or hung. Maybe if she was lucky, they shipped her off to be a prostitute at a concentration camp.

To be clear, the Nazis HATED the Flintenweiber (rifle broad

or rifle sluts).

The female Sovjet Pow were subject to the usual treatment, either shot on sight or interned in a concentration camp that was pretty much what happened to them if they were liberated by Stalin as well after being captured

Regarding the liberated POWs, the Soviet archives show that most of the claims were bullshit. Some 4 million liberated POWs were transferred to filtration camps where they convalesced while they were checked for collaboration (eg collaborators who were informants, collaborators who helped run the camps and even collaborators who had joined the German military to get out of the camps, plus anti-socials who thrived in

the camps by stealing food, murdering etc their fellow POWs).

Something like 93% of POWs went through the filtration checks with no problems and were demobilised or returned to units.

Of the 7% who were collaborators, the sentence for the vast majority was being stripped of rank and being sent to penal battalions (note that this wasn't a death sentence and most were eventualy transferred back to regular units*). The most serious cases of collaboration went to the gulags after sentencing with around 2000 being sent directly to the tender mercies of the NKVD.

• I'm currently reading the memoirs of a Siberian who was conscripted at the outbreak of war. He had hoped to become a pilot because he had recently joined a flying club, but he was assigned to the army because of his experience with a hunting rifle. Anyway, he eventually ended up assigned to a penal battalion (not

as a prisoner, but asa regular soldier). He writes that his squad included a former General who had been stripped of rank to a Private.

A historian say that one of the reasons

the Germans lost the war was because they wouldn't send their 16 year-old daughters to the front. There's definitely something in that.