 The early standard operating procedure for handling POWs and Disarmed Enemy Forces was to send a copy of the POW form to the Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects (CROWCASS).However, this practice was apparently stopped as impractical, and all copies of the POW forms, roughly eight million, were destroyed.By way of contrast, the Soviet archives contain dossiers for every German POW they held, averaging around 15 pages for each.