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16th September 1941: Germans see the appalling treatment of captured men

Sep 16, 2021
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Heinrich Himmler inspects a prisoner of war camp in Russia, circa 1941. Heinrich Hoffman Collection.

Russian prisoners of war were beginning to die in their tens of thousands in the ‘camps’ in the German occupied territories in the east.

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