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Soviet Jews and Red Army POW’s

+International Jew Hitler’s Speech in 1941

“Inspirer of the world coalition against the German people”

“Soviet Union was the great servant of Judaism”

+Jewish Populations

Heaviest concentration of Jews lived in the Western areas of the USSR

5,000,000 Jewish people in Russia

When Russian annexed territory they added to the Jewish population

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+Nazi S.S. (Schutzstaffel)

Started out as a small protection force

Grew into a large paramilitary force

Waffen SS

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EinsatzgruppenMobile SS killing

units

They followed closely behind the panzers

Einszkommandos

+Initial Stage of the Genocide

Young males were targeted

Whole communities were not destroyed initially

It was not until the end of September that communities were targeted

+Second Stage of the Massacre

Germans would now kill regardless of gender or age

Would go to homes and communities

Mass graves

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In the community

Local informants

Collecting points

Marched towards the killing sites

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Gas Van

+Babii Iar Massacre

September 1941

Kiev

30, 000 Jews were massacred

+Dealing with Soviet POW’s

“This enemy is made up not of soldiers, but for the most part only of animals”

Millions of prisoners of war taken by the Germans throughout the war

A quarter of all the USSR’s military deaths came from soldiers who died in captivity

+Pre-planned Extermination

“War of ideology”

Shooting Soviet political commissars on the spot

This was in line with Hitler's plan that the war was to completely eradicate communism in Russia

+First use of poison gasGas was used for the first time by the Nazis against Soviet POW’s at Auschwitz in 1941

+Conditions for prisoners

The German POW regime was extremely brutal and extremely negligent

Conditions prevailed in which millions of Soviet captives died

Blames lies entirely with the German Army

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Capture Most Russians who were captured were already in a

weakened state

Many were wounded

Force marched to camps

Stragglers were shot

+Transit Camps (Dulags)

Soveit prisoners put into an encllosure of barbed wire

Told to dig their own shelters

+Conditions Food supplies were

extremely low

Starvation, epidemics and cold killed a high percentage of Russian soldiers

Men became part of a forced labour crew

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Sinister twistInteresting how the Soviets treated their own soldiers

Red Army Regulations forbade surrender

Stalin’s Order 270, 1941

+Infiltration Camps

Soviet POW’s were sent to camps after there release

Screening was carried out to determine if soldiers were traitors

Many men were sent to Gulags or work camps

+Treatment of Prisoners back home

1, 550, 000 prisoners were sent to back to their homes

They were treated with suspicion

Restrictions on where they could live

Restriction on the jobs they could have

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+Apologies

After the death of Stalin, apologies were made to the prisoners

“removal of their moral oppression of mistrust, the rehabilitation of those who had been illegally condemned, and the end of restriction in relation to former POW’s”