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'Severity Order' given to German troops
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'Severity Order' given to German troops

10th October 1941: Wehrmacht orders shows complicity in Nazi war crimes - urging them to be 'pitiless' behind the front line

Oct 10, 2021
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A group of Russian peasants suspected of being partisans have been captured. A group of soldiers is briefed in the background. These are official propaganda images which suggest an orderliness not consistent with many accounts of ‘partisan actions’.

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