Need help finding information about War Atrocities committed by Russia during WWII. Any Help?
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I've linked several articles below for your review. 1st - Ethnic cleansing, 2nd is an overview on Allied war crimes, 3rd a specific record of the details on the previous posters Katyn massacre. There were significant atrocities committed before (1932-33 era in the Ukraine) and after (Stalin's pogroms) the war and with most focus on the Nuremberg trials a lot of Allied crimes either went un-or-under reported. Best of luck in your research, hope this helps.
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Strasveetya!  You really need to study more about the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, its a very intereting time in history.  Most of the American movies, by the way, called the Soviet Union "Russia."  For many, many years our countries were the worst of enemies.  It started around the end of World War II, and officially ended when Yeltsin took power.  Why?  Because America believed communism to be the greatest evil, and the Soviet Union believed capitalism to be the greatest evil.  We were in a state that is known as a cold war.  A cold war is essentially a state of war, but at a constant state of cease-fire.  Some shots were fired, mainly planes shooting down other planes, but no major battles were fought between the two countries.  However, we had enough nuclear missiles pointed at each other to completely destroy all life on this planet several times over.  The Cold War was never more tense than when Khrushchev and Kennedy were presidents, and Khrushchev said on international television that the Soviet Union would crush America (taking off his shoe and pounding it for all to see while he said it).  I believe two of the greatest leaders our nations ever had were Gorbachev and Reagan.  They did much to clam things down, and both began the process of disarming our nuclear missiles.  Slava Bog!
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War crimes of the Wehrmacht are those crimes made by German armed forces during World War II. While the principal participants of the Holocaust were the Nazi German political armies — the Waffen-SS and particularly the Einsatzgruppen), the traditional armed forces represented by the Wehrmacht committed war crimes of its own, particularly on the Eastern front in the war against the Soviet Union. The Nuremberg Trials of the major war criminals at the end of World War II found that the Wehrmacht was not an inherently criminal organization, but that it had committed crimes in the course of the war.\n\nThe war crimes of Wehrmacht include:\n\nAtrocities during invasion of Poland\nWehrmacht units killed over 16,000 Polish civilians during the 1939 September campaign through executions, terror bombing of open cities or murder. After the end of hostilities, during the Wehrmacht's administration of Poland, which went on until October 25 1939, 531 towns and villages were burned, the Wehrmacht carried out 714 mass executions and a number of other crimes. Altogether, it is estimated that 50,000 Polish civilians had perished including 7000 Jews[1].\n\n\nDestruction of Warsaw\nFurther information: Battle of Warsaw (1939) and Warsaw Uprising\n\nUp to 250,000 civilians were murdered by German led forces during the Warsaw Uprising. Human shields were used by German forces during the fighting and during the Wola Massacre 50,000 civilians were executed to intimidate the Poles into surrender.\n\nCommissar Order\nThe order cast the war against Russia as one of ideological and racial differences, and provided for the immediate liquidation of political commissars of the Red Army. The order stated that German soldiers guilty of violating international laws would be "excused". The order was formulated on Hitler's behalf by the Wehrmacht command and distributed to field commanders.\n\nBarbarossa Decree\nThe decree, issued by Keitel a few weeks before Operation Barbarossa, exempted punishable offences committed by enemy civilians (in Russia) from the jurisdiction of military justice. Suspects were to be brought before an officer who would decide if they were to be shot. Prosecution of offenses against civilians by members of the Wehrmacht was decreed to be "not required" unless necessary for maintenance of discipline.\n\nPOW Camps\nWhile the Wehrmacht's prisoner of war camps in the West generally satisfied the humanitarian conditions prescribed by international law, prisoners from Poland and the USSR were incarcerated under significantly worse conditions. These prisoners suffered from malnutrition and diseases like typhus that resulted from the Wehrmacht's failure to provide sufficient food, shelter, proper sanitation and medical care for the prisoners. Prisoners were regulary subject to torture, beatings and humiliation. Between the launching of Operation Barbarossa in summer 1941 and the following spring, more than two million Soviet prisoners of war died while in German hands. The German failure to attain their anticipated victory in the east led to significant shortages of labor for German war production and, beginning in 1942, prisoners of war in the eastern POW camps — primarily Soviets — were seen as a source of slave labor to keep Germany's wartime economy running.\n\nMassacres of prisoners-of-war\nKilling of POWs by Wehrmacht soldiers started during the September 1939 campaign in Poland, with numerous examples exist where Polish soldiers were killed after capture, for instance Śladów where 252 POWs were shot or drowned, and Ciepielów where some 300 POWs were killed, or Zambrów where a further 200 POWs were killed. Some 50 British officers who had escaped from Stalag Luft III were shot after recapture, and 15 uniformed U. S. Army officers and men were shot without trial in Italy. Hitler's Commando Order, issued in 1942, provided "justification" for the shooting of enemy commandoes wh
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww2.htm\nhas all the info u need
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What,there were 60 million people killed in that war why don`t you interview one of the Russian survivors of the death camps.20million Russians were killed in that war.All you here about is the jews! It is offensive!
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go to www.wikipedia.org\n\nand search for holocaust.\nBig study and lots of info there
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There are statistics on the following page:\n\nhttp://www.antiwar.com/casualties/
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www.wikipedia.com!! helped me on a lot of history assignments... just type Gulf war... ull get the info in like 2 seconds(depends on ur net speed lol)
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You will find all sorts of information by searching "Chernobyl radiation effects."  It's looks rather interesting & so I'm going to read it all now.  It gives many different web sites to chose from.
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Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, Dachau, & Triblinka are the ones that I can recall off the top of my head.  Go to any Holocaust site and I'm sure they will provide detailed information about concentration camps--and perhaps the many camps for Displaced People who were used as slave laborers too.
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Try the US Holocaust museum website, they might have some info for you.
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Germany's desire for revenge... or for a more complete explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWII
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http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/russia/romanov.html
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I'd suggest dropping at some Russian church or community event and just asking around. You'll probably find someone friendly who could teach you a lot.
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As always just go to www.wikipedia.org lol I go there for everything, but not now because it's not working right now(I am also working on a world history project ha what a coincidence.)Stalingrad happend because Von Paulus and Hitler decided to invade south into the Caucuses for raw materials instead of North into Moscow. There, they were defeated and the whole 6th army wwas killed/captured, leading to the collapse of the Eastern Front.
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British intelligence commissioned historian\nHugh Trevor Roper to look into this in 1945,\npublished in book form a year or two later:\nfinding that he shot himself, his body was burned in the\nbunker garden and buried, but later recovered in part\nby Russian troops.  Later biographers (up to Ian\nKershaw recently) do not disagree in any important\ndetail.  There were 20 years ago various rumours\nof a jawbone, tooth, etc. etc. preserved in the\nKremlin, in which no one has shown much interest\nlately.
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The former U.S.S.R.\n\n"Possibly 62 million people died in the war; with estimates varying greatly. Most were civilians, as a result of the large-scale aerial bombing of cities, disease, starvation, and genocide. It is guessed that the Soviet Union suffered around 23 million deaths, and that China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing approximately 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million."