During World War II, Soviet prisoners of war held by Nazi Germany and primarily in the custody of the German Army were starved and subjected to deadly conditions. Of nearly six million who were captur
Distribution of food in a POW camp near Vinnytsia, Ukraine, in July 1941
Red Army soldiers captured between Lutsk and Volodymyr-Volynskyi, June 1941
Soviet prisoners of war by year of capture
An improvised camp for Soviet prisoners of war, August 1942
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The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jew
German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war
…1.4 million Soviet prisoners of war served as auxiliaries to the German military or SS; collaborators were essential to the German war effort and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. Deaths among these Soviet prisoners of war have been called "one of the greatest crimes in military history", second in number only…
Jews arriving at Auschwitz II in German-occupied Poland, May 1944. Most were selected for execution in gas chambers.
View of the Pegnitz River (c. 1900) with the Grand Synagogue of Nuremberg, destroyed in 1938 during the November pogroms
1919 Austrian postcard showing a Jew stabbing a German Army soldier in the back
Territorial expansion of Germany from 1933 to 1941