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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”
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