I agree there were significant deaths.

We've all seen the photos of German prison guards filling massive burial pits with the corpses of starved prisoners... but few people realize those photos were taken two years AFTER WW2 ended: ten million German civilians and one million prisoners starved to death between 1945 and 1947 (mostly) because of punishing allied sanctions. This irrefutable fact is referred to by historians as "Eisenhower's Holocaust".

Those prisoners remained incarcerated after the prisoners of war were released in 1945 because most were legitimate criminals who declared a holy war against German Christians and participated in the treasonous communist coup of 1933 ... and created Antifa in 1930.