“Look Hans, I told you this will be a walk in the park. Feel the sun on your skin! Can you smell the flowers?
We’ll be back home by Christmas, and definitely not starving and freezing to death in a rat-infested basement under a city named after our enemy!”The number of people killed by Barbarossa is absolutely staggering.
- 1000 Deaths every hour the first 200 days. Every hour. Day and night.
- Almost 10 million soviet civilians killed throughout the entire war.
- Around 3 million soviet prisoners of war killed in german camps (or on their way there), that is a death rate of about 60%. (almost genocidal in it’s own right)
- And the start of the Holocaust. (first mass killing of jews, first use of gas chambers (against communists at first later en mass against jews)).
And these are just the numbers, behind which countless acts of cruelty by individuals in the Wehrmacht and the SS are hidden.
(almost genocidal in it’s own right)
Since they were specifically killed for who they were, there’s a very solid argument to be made for leaving “almost” off
There is probably a good case to be made following the definition of the genocide convention. But there was still a clear difference in treatment between jewish pows and non jewish pows. Jewish pows were simply shot outright (as well as any pow with a political role), it went even so far that they just shot anyone that was circumcised upon being captured.
Also an estimated 1 million german soldiers died in soviet POW camps (about 1/3). At least according to Wikipedia.
3-day special military operation
The photo itself is incredible
The subject matter not so, but damn beautiful sight and good composition. It almost looks like a ghibli still.
Obligatory fuck nazis.
Fuck nazis, but cruising around a squadron of Tiger tanks in a flower meadow must be a pretty majestic sight.
Ah, the classic nazi colours of bright orange helmets. Fucking Bob the Builder invasion if I ever saw one.
Of course you are not forbidden from abandoning the tank, but if you do so you will be immediately spotted and killed, so you must not abandon the tank
