When regular citizens are starving, when the army is starving, then it only stands to reason that the prisoners of war will be dead from starvation. Add disease into that scenario and you have a recipe for millions of people dead.
It's just another thing, isn't it? Can't actually have a discussion about it because the crazies on both sides come out. It's entirely possible millions of jews were rounded up, put in labor camps, submitted to hellish conditions... and died like many prisoners of war do, especially on the losing side. It's still genocidal, but it's a little less maniacal, and we can't ever have that.
I mean, look at the POW Camps in the South at the end of the Civil War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_prison_camps
When regular citizens are starving, when the army is starving, then it only stands to reason that the prisoners of war will be dead from starvation. Add disease into that scenario and you have a recipe for millions of people dead.
It's just another thing, isn't it? Can't actually have a discussion about it because the crazies on both sides come out. It's entirely possible millions of jews were rounded up, put in labor camps, submitted to hellish conditions... and died like many prisoners of war do, especially on the losing side. It's still genocidal, but it's a little less maniacal, and we can't ever have that.