Examples of using Soviet pows in English and their translations into Hebrew
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And what about the Soviet POWs? .
Naked Soviet POWs in Mauthausen concentration camp.
In 1941, two trucks transported 70 Soviet POWs to Hinzert.
Five hundred Soviet POWs were executed by firing squad.
During that time the bulk of its inmates were political prisoners, Jews and Soviet PoWs.
By September 1941, the mortality rate among Soviet POWs was in the order of 1% per day.
Estonian Jews, about 10,000 foreign Jews, 1000 Estonian Roma, 7000 other Estonians,15,000 Soviet POWs.
The victims were 600 Soviet POWs and 250 sick concentration camp inmates.
Following the outbreak of the Soviet-German War in 1941 thecamps started to receive a large number of Soviet POWs.
There were 14 reported successful escapes(including several Soviet POWs who then joined the local Polish communist partisans).
Most of the camps for Soviet POWs were simply open areas fenced off with barbed wire and watchtowers with no inmate housing.
In March 1941, the SS chief Heinrich Himmlerordered the construction of a large camp for 100,000 Soviet POWs at Birkenau, in close proximity to the main camp.
Nazi crimes against Soviet POWs, resulted in some 3.3 million to 3.5 million deaths, about 60% of all Soviet POWs.
It took only a few months, in the winter of 1941- 2,for the Nazis to allow more than two million Soviet POWs to die in crowded camps, unseen and largely unrecorded.
The arrival in a transport of Soviet POWs of Red Army officer Alexander Pechersky in late September gave new impetus to the escape plans.
The Nazis first used the camp, in fact, as a prison for Polish dissidents, and Birkenau, the huge 1941 addition that became the main Auschwitz killing center,was originally designed to hold Soviet POWs.
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp: From about 15,000 Soviet POWs who were brought to Auschwitz I for work, only 92 remained alive at the last roll call.
Pechersky soon assumed the leadership of the group of would-be escapees and, with Feldhendler as his deputy, devised a planthat involved killing the camp's SS personnel, sending the remaining Soviet POWs to raid the arsenal and then fighting their way out the camp's front gate.
Buchenwald concentration camp: 8,483 Soviet POWs were selected in 1941- 1942 by three Dresden Gestapo officers and sent to the camp for immediate liquidation by a gunshot to the back of the neck, the infamous Genickschuss using a purpose-built facility.
A seasoned soldier, Pechersky soon assumed the leadership of the group of would-be escapees and, with Feldhendler as his deputy, the group formed aplan that involved killing the camp's SS personnel, sending the Soviet POWs to raid the arsenal and then fighting their way out the camp's front gate.
From November 1941,Jews and other victims of the Nazi regime(Soviet POWs, partisans, hostages etc) were murdered in the Blagovtshina Forest, near the village of Maly Trostinets, south-east of Minsk.
The following is a list of subcamps of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp established by Nazi Germany. The main camp, with around 50 barracks for slave-labour prisoners, was located 35 kilometres(22 mi) from Berlin, and operated between 1938and April 22, 1945. During World War II the prisoners included Germans, Poles, Soviet POWs, Roma, and later Jews.
Among the actions carried out by Olshak'spartisan unit were an operation to free Soviet POWs from a camp near Deblin-Irena, and the mining of German trains and highways in the Deblin-Lubartow region.
At noon on 8 February 1945, as the ten Soviet POWs, including Devyataev, were at work on the runway, one of the work gang, Ivan Krivonogov, picked up a crowbar and killed their guard. Another prisoner, Peter Kutergin, quickly stripped off the guard's uniform and slipped it on. The work gang, led by the"guard", managed to unobtrusively take over the camp commandant's He 111 H22 bomber and fly from the island.
Filmed in Europe and given a limited theatrical release, the film recounts the massmurders in September 1941 of thousands of Jews, Soviet POWs, communists, Gypsies(Romani people) and civilian hostages by German Einsatzgruppen, and Ukrainian nationalist collaborators in the title location, a ravine in Kiev(the capital of Ukraine).[2].
From November 1941,Jews and other victims of the Nazi regime(Soviet POWs, partisans, hostages and others) were murdered in the Blagovshchina forest, close to the village of Maly Trostinets, southeast of Minsk.
According to Richard Overy,Russian sources maintain that 356,000 out of 2,388,000 POWs died in Soviet captivity.
A total of 2.8 millionGerman Wehrmacht personnel were held as POWs by the Soviet Union at the end of the war, according to Soviet records.
Based on his research, Overmans believes that the deaths of 363,000 POWs in Soviet captivity can be confirmed by the files of Deutsche Dienststelle(WASt), in addition he maintains that it seems entirely plausible, while not provable, that 700,000 German military personnel listed as missing actually died in Soviet custody.
Within six months two million POWS were taken, thousands of Soviet soldiers were killed each day, and the Germans advanced, nearing the outskirts of Moscow and Stalingrad.