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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2001 15(1):1-32; doi:10.1093/hgs/15.1.1
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The "Russian" Prisoners of War in Nazi-Ruled Ukraine as Victims of Genocidal Massacre

Karel C. Berkhoff

Netherlands Institute for War Documentation

Ukrainian and Russian primary sources enable us to integrate the civilian Soviet population into the story of the Wehrmacht's treatment of Soviet POWs during World War II. This article reveals a little-known phenomenon: the myriad attempts of bystanders—usually thwarted—to save the lives of the prisoners. Most importantly, it seems likely that in Ukraine prisoners' mass mortality could have been avoided. However, German policy makers and prison guards' desire to eliminate most Soviet POWs, based on the view that these were "Russians" and thus irreversibly "Bolshevized" or simply superfluous, resulted in a "genocidal massacre" that lasted until at least the end of 1942.


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