What kinds of atrocities had nazis commited in russia?

Question by Peter W: What kinds of atrocities had nazis commited in russia during WW2?
I know the total casualty is 23 million, which is a huge number considering the population of soviet at that time.

What atrocities had nazis committed when Hitler officially declared war on russia?

Could someone give me some examples for my reference since I’m going to write an essay.

Thanks very much.

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Answer by Spellbound
There were German orders to execute commissars, essentially that meant that anyone in the communist party in an occupied area was executed immediately. Following the German army were Einsatzgruppen – these were mobile killing squads. They rounded up “undesirables” Jew, Gypsies, suspected partizans, anyone who they suspected of supporting the Soviets – and killed them. Any Soviet troops captured, and millions were caught, were often left in barbed wire camps, with no shelter, no food and no medical care – the Soviet Union had not signed the Geneva Convention, so the Germans did not have to abide by it, as they did in the West. The “lucky” Soviet troops were put to work as slave labour in camps, mines or other dangerous work: they were routinely worked to death.

A friend of mine tried to find his ancestors’ village in Ukraine (his grandfather managed to smuggle himself to Sweden in 1940). The road was there, the village just a clearing in the forest – the Nazis had killed everyone in the place, burnt the houses and obliterated it from the map – this happened across occupied Poland and the Soviet Union.
For a graphic (fictionalised, but horrific) interpretation of what the Einsatzgruppen did see “Come & See”, a Soviet film about the war.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005130
http://www.gendercide.org/case_soviet.html

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