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Soviet prisoners of war receiving their meager rations. More than three million Soviet prisoners of war died in German custody, mostly from malnutrition and exposure. Rovno, Poland, 1941.
Second only to the Jews, Soviet prisoners of war were the largest group of victims of Nazi racial policy.
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