History 2147A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gerd Von Rundstedt, Hunger Plan, Commissar Order
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In class essay walls: question what personal qualities, skills, relationships, and circumstances. What enabled her to be successful? only just started the armament program in 1939: the soviet army went through a drastic reorganization which alters the, although ussr have just started their rearmament program they are already. Soviet union quality of the red army and it makes it apparent that they are not a formidable foe. But also 3 million other soldiers that are almost out producing germany: for instance. War of annihilation: not shy of disliking the bolsheviks but he has toned it down since entering the nazi soviet pact (publicly at least). Geneva convention so they don(cid:495)t need to follow the rules with them: 5. 7 million prisoners of war are taken, 3 million die. 56% death rate: mostly as a result of starvation, peak of this policy 4000 soviet people are dying each day, staggering rate of attrition.