• CascadeOfLight [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    To add a couple of related facts: German POWs captured by the Soviets had a death rate of 14%, Soviet POWs of the Germans had a death rate of 54% - and Soviet POWs were the first people killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

    Jewish deaths in the Holocaust cannot be disentangled from Germany's colonial extermination campaign against the peoples of the Soviet Union.