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SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS:
SOVIET PRISONERS OF WAR
Historians claim that Hitler waged war against the Soviet Union to obtain "living space in the East." This accounts for perhaps 10% of the variance. His fundamental aspiration was to kill Jewish-Bolsheviks, the source, he believed, of the disintegration of civilization.
Genocide and warfare were not separate phenomenon, rather were two sides of the same coin. The foundation of Nazism was Hitler's dream of making the world "Jew-free."
Although we all focus on the fact that Germany "lost" the Second World War, in the end Hitler believed he had achieved his aspiration. The Testament of Adolf Hitler was dictated to Martin Borman during February-April 1945. In an entry dated February 13, 1945, Hitler said:
National Socialism has tackled the Jewish problem by action and not by words. For us, this has been an essential process of disinfection. We have lanced the Jewish abscess; and the world of the future will be eternally grateful to us.
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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.”
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