In Reply to: Re: Uh Vic... posted by Evgueni on April 18, 2000 at 17:18:12:
...ultimately had more to do with the professed Nazi fight for aryan ethnic purity and Hitlers obsession against Communism. The behaviors German troops engaged in on the Eastern Front itself (as per Hitlers edict for how war in Russia was to be waged) defied human characterization. It wasnt war as much as an all out attempt to erase all life from the Russian territory they conquered. Military as well as civilian.Of course Stalins treatment of repatriated prisoners of war was not exactly a human interest story as you say.
joe
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