title: The Extermination of Red Army Soldiers in German Captivity, 1941–1945: Causes, Patterns, Dimensions
abstract: Captive Red Army soldiers made up the majority of victims of Nazi Germany's starvation policy against Soviet civilians and other non-combatants and thus constituted the largest single victim group of the German war of annihilation against the Soviet Union.Indeed, Soviet prisoners of war were the largest victim group of all National Socialist annihilation policies after the European Jews.Before the launch of Operation Barbarossa, it was clear to the Wehrmacht planning departments on exactly what 
journal: The Journal of Slavic Military Studies