In the European theater of World War II, the Soviet Union and Germany were the main belligerents. At that time, the Soviet Union and Germany were both powerful countries, Germany used the tactics of "blitzkrieg", in the early days of heavy damage to the Soviet Red Army, occupy the territory of the Soviet Union, if it were not for the support of the Later Allies, and the problems of German tactics, the Soviet Union would most likely be annexed by Germany. The Battle of Kiev was a massive battle between the Soviets and Germans, also known as the largest defensive battle in history. In this battle, the Germans captured more than 600,000 Soviet troops, resulting in a serious shortage of Soviet troops, so what was the fate of these prisoners?
At that time, Germany was already considered an extreme racist, and almost all other peoples except the German nation were inferior peoples, of which the Jewish people were the most seriously persecuted. In this battle, captured Red Army officers, Communists, Jews or even shot. The rest went to Poland as coolies, and some went on foot to concentration camps.
The Soviet side had about 800,000 troops in this battle, and only 15,000 people escaped in the end, which shows how hard the Soviet Union was hit in this battle. Under Stalin's command, these hundreds of thousands of troops have been stubbornly defending, even if a senior general has proposed to defend the troops, retreat to defend Moscow, and temporarily abandon Kiev. Stalin was still obstinate and insisted that the soldiers hold Kiev to the death, and as a result, the German army was menacing, strong and well prepared, and finally took Kiev with relative ease. In this large encirclement war, more than 600,000 Soviet soldiers were captured, and the German army was fierce and would never treat it according to the so-called humanitarianism.
The Soviet soldiers who were sent to the prisoner-of-war camp had to rush to the concentration camp more than 400 kilometers away in more than 10 days. Throughout the march, they had only a small amount of food and could not feed themselves at all, and many soldiers were tortured to death during the march. After being sent to the prisoner-of-war camp, they still had to engage in a lot of labor, lack of food and clothing, and when the German army was in a bad mood, there was a massacre, and the survival rate of the captured soldiers was extremely low, and a large number of soldiers died every day.