how were the prisoners of war treated by the nazi forces
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Answer:
Beatings and other abuse by the guards were common, and prisoners were malnourished, often consuming only a few hundred calories or less per day. Medical treatment was non-existent and an International Red Cross offer to help in 1941 was rejected by Hitler. Some of the Soviet POWs were also experimented on.
Answer:
During World War II, Nazi Germany engaged in a policy of deliberate maltreatment of Soviet prisoners of war (POWs), in contrast to their treatment of British and American POWs. This policy, which amounted to deliberately starving and working to death Soviet POWs, was grounded in Nazi racial theory, which depicted Slavs as sub-humans (Untermenschen). The policy resulted in some 3.3 to 3.5 million deaths.
Location:
Eastern Europe
Date:
1941 - 1945
Target:
Soviet POWs
Attack type:
Death marches, starvation
Deaths:
3.3 to 3.5 million[1]
Motive:
Slavophobia, Lebensraum
During Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, and the subsequent German–Soviet War, millions of Red Army (and other Soviet Armed Forces) prisoners of war were taken. Many were executed, arbitrarily in the field by the German forces or handed over to the SS to be shot, under the Commissar Order. Most, however, died during the death marches from the front lines or under inhumane conditions in German prisoner-of-war camps and concentration camps.
A Soviet document in regards to Soviet prisoners of war signed by Stalin asserted that "the panic-monger, the coward, and the deserter are worse than the enemy."[6] The Soviet government ignored offers of help from the International Red Cross as well as prisoner exchanges from the Axis forces.