How many German soldiers survived after World War 2?

Answer 1

There were 18,200,000 listed personnel in all branches of the German military at the time (wermacht, luftwaffe, etc). Bearing in mind some of those were captured citizens of other nations, or volunteers not German, that number isn't 100% accurate. Over 5,500,000 of that number were killed. Well over 6,000,000 wounded. So of that number, roughly 6 million remained totally unscathed. All in all, roughly 13 million German soldiers survived the war.

Answer 2

Hundreds of thousands of Nazi German SS and Wehrmacht and Youth Union surrendered to the Allied Forces and the Red Army. They were dirty, hungry, wounded and thirsty. The Allied Forces took care of their needs and the German soldiers were interned.

The Red Army shot a lot of the German soldiers. They had a reason for doing this. The Germans had murdered 20 million Russians (mostly civilians). The Reds also did not want to take prisoners. The Germans did not want to be taken prisoner by the Reds either so they tried to escape and be captured by the Allied Forces instead.