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World War II: Soviet Prisoners of War, Mauthausen Concentration Camp
In eight months of 1941-42, the invading German armies killed an estimated 3.3 million Soviet prisoners-of-war. This 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.” He states that the murder of Soviet prisoners of war is one of the "least known modern genocides."
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