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The Mass Murder of Soviet Prisoners of War and the Holocaust: How Were They Related?

On 22 June 1942, the first anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Pravda carried a long essay by Mikhail Sholokhov, “Nauka nenavisti” (The Science of Hatred). It included the Russian writer’s rendition of the tale of a Siberian lieutenant in the Red Army, Gerasimov, who had survived as a prisoner of war in German captivity. The possibly fictional Gerasimov related how immediately after he and his comrades were captured, they were lined up. Then the following happened: