The outbreak of World War II in the last century was a disaster destined for humanity to go down in history. The losses caused by this war to mankind are incalculable, not only a large amount of industrial materials are wasted on the battlefield, but also a large number of lives are lost. In this war, the crazy actions of the Axis powers have made many people palpitate. At the beginning of World War II, Germany laid down almost the entire Western European continent, and only Britain could rely on its topographical advantages and the legacy of the previous British Empire. But Russia, located in eastern Europe, has always been a huge threat to Germany. Therefore, Germany planned the Barbarossa Plan and began to attack the Soviet Union.
Under the German attack, the casualties of the Soviet-German war were tragic. In the Soviet-German War, the Battle of Kiev became the worst battle lost by the Soviet side during the Soviet-German War, and the Soviet Union suffered heavy losses, not only losing a large area of territory, but also taking more than 600,000 soldiers prisoner. What happened to the captives in their end?
Germany could not stop when it conquered the Western European continent, because Germany had been tied to the battlefield, and the economic center of gravity of the whole country began to deviate from the military industry. Once the war is over, not only will the economy decline, but there will also be a large number of unemployed people. Germany therefore had to target the Resource-rich and Great Threat to itself. In the early days of the Soviet-German war, the Soviet Union was directly captured more than 600,000 people in the Battle of Kiev because of insufficient preparation, and these prisoners naturally did not have a good end in the hands of the German army.
The reason why the German army was able to win a complete victory in the Battle of Kiev at that time and capture hundreds of thousands of enemy troops was because the Soviet side did not have a strong sense of resistance at that time. At that time, a large number of Soviet troops surrendered as a structure, so it is not difficult to see the gap between the two sides in this war.
The Germans' methods of dealing with these prisoners can be said to be quite professional, first of all, to find out all the Communists and political commissars in the captives and shoot them, to break the main backbone of these prisoners, so that they have no cohesion, and then to dispose of all the wounded and sick who are incapable of marching, and gradually disintegrating the remaining fighting spirit of the Soviet prisoners. The Germans then drove the remaining Soviet prisoners to the prisoner-of-war camp. In the process of rushing, the German army only provided Soviet prisoners with bread that was only enough for ordinary people to eat a meal every day, and these seriously undernourished Soviet prisoners had to drive more than thirty kilometers of road every day. Under the long-term ravages, the Soviet captives did not even have the strength to resist.
In the prisoner-of-war camps, the Germans began to purposefully consume the lives of these prisoners. Not only did they assign huge amounts of manual labor to their captives every day, but they also did not give them enough food. During the very cold winter, the Germans only gave the Soviet prisoners a small amount of clothing, resulting in many prisoners freezing to death.
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