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Life as a Russian POW in a Nazi prison camp - link
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Date: August 11th, 2025 9:36 PM Author: ,.,,.,.,,,,,,..................... At one camp in Hola, Poland, 100,000 Soviet POWs were herded together, but given no food. By the end of 1941 they were all dead.184 Not surprisingly such dire circumstances led to the most frightful spectacles. Hans Becker, a German soldier who entered a Soviet POW camp to collect a working party, recalled his first observations upon entering a hut:
A whirling mass of bodies staggered through the gloom, grunting, biting and tearing at each other. A figure was hurled on to a plank bed, and I realized that they were all attacking one man. They were gouging his eyes out, twisting his arms right off and tearing the flesh from his bones with their nails. He was knocked down and literally torn apart. Dumbfounded, I shouted to them to stop, but without any effect. Not daring to move further into the room I stood mesmerized by the horror of what was happening. The murderers were now cramming the flesh down their throats, I caught glimpses of the bare skull and ribs of the man on the bed, while on the other side of the room two men were fighting over his arm and cracking the fingers off in their tug-of-war.185
When Becker rushed to a nearby guard and told him what he had witnessed the man was unmoved. ‘This Happens every day.’ Becker was told. ‘We stopped worrying about it a long time ago.’186
Stahel, David. The Battle for Moscow (p. 43). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition.
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