IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WAR AND GENOCIDE? 

In eight months of 1941-42, the invading German armies killed an estimated 2.8 million Soviet prisoners-of-war.  Adam Jones claims that the murder of Soviet soldiers “vies with the genocide in Rwanda as the most concentrated mass-killing in human history.” He observes that the rate of killing exceeded "even the worst period of the Holocaust against the Jews.”

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Soviet Prisoners of War, Mauthausen Concentration Camp

In eight months of 1941-42, the invading German armies killed an estimated 2.8 million Soviet prisoners-of-war. The episode, according to Adam Jones, “vies with the genocide in Rwanda as the most concentrated mass-killing in human history.” There is good reason to think, Jones said, that this rate of killing “exceeds even the worst period of the Holocaust against the Jews.”