September 4, 2015
Carolyn reads Chapter 16, "Captured German Soldiers in the Soviet Union." Stalin and the Red Army had a policy of German genocide and it was evident on the very first day of the war. Main themes:
- Massacre at Broniki on July 1, 1941 when 180 mostly wounded Germans were stabbed, shot and grenaded to death with never anyone punished for it;
- Captured reports and orders, leaflets and intercepted radio and wireless messages, plus testimony of Soviet POWs all told of the policy of executing prisoners of war;
- Seven ways the Soviets justified the killing of prisoners;
- How the Soviets pretended they were following the Hague Conventions of war;
- Commissars and/or lower ranking officers were responsible for ordering the killings, but there were numerous reports of a Stalin Order.
War Crimes Bureau members believed that Stalin was responsible for the wide-spread killing of German prisoners of war. 1h2m
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