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The Maschke Commission (officially the Scientific Commission for the History of German Prisoners of War) was a commission led by the former Nazi German historian Erich Maschke from 1962 to 1974. The commission published the 22-volume series, Zur Geschichte der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen des Zweiten Weltkrieges (The History of German prisoners of war of in the Second World War). It investigated the conditions of German prisoners of war held in Allied POW camps during World War II, and concluded that there was much abuse and mistreatment of German soldiers. In its report of 1974 the Maschke Commission found that about 1.2 million German military personnel reported as missing more than likely died as POWs, including 1.1 million in the USSR.