World War II German war crimes in the Soviet Union

The Nazis considered Slavs, such as Russians, Ukrainians, etc., to be Untermensch (subhuman), with their Generalplan Ost (Masterplan East) envisioning the extermination or expulsion of Slavs to provide Lebensraum (living space) for German colonization of central and eastern Europe. The Nazis also sought to exterminate the Jews (The Holocaust) in every region under their control. So war crimes against both soldiers and civilians were officially sanctioned.

• The Holocaust in Russia
• The Holocaust in Byelorussia
• The Holocaust in Ukraine
• The Holocaust in Latvia
• The Holocaust in Lithuania
• The Holocaust in Estonia

In the village of Ershovo in Moscow Oblast, 100 Soviet civilians and captured soldiers were blown up in the village's church, the Germans also burnt the remainder of the village, destroying 95 of 106 houses.[1] [2][3]

In the village of Vysoko, Germans burned 70 civilians and 20 captured Soviet soldiers alive.[4]

In the village of Dubna, Germans hanged 42 civilians, in Prudnaja they burned 20 civilians alive and shot 50 civilians in the village of Kolodeznaja (Tula Oblast).[5][6]

In the village of Slobodino of Moscow Oblast, Germans raped and killed 15 Soviet women.[7][8]

In the village of Boljshoe in Tula Oblast, Germans burned 56 civilians and wounded Soviet soldiers alive.[9]

In the village of Chornaja Grjazj in Moscow Oblast, 30 civilians were shot and their bodies were hanged along the way. Two women were also raped and killed.[10]

During the retreat from Worjushino in Kalinin Oblast, Germans shot 26 civilians (10 among them were children).[11]

During the occupation of Volokolamsk, Germans burned 126 wounded Soviet soldiers alive and shot 86 civilians. They also executed eight members of the Komsomol accused of acts of sabotage.[12][13][14]

On 23 September 1942 the Germans shot 2875 people (1620 of whom were children) in Kortelisy and 20 other Ukrainian villages.[15]

In the second half of March 1943 after the Third Battle of Kharkov the Germans arrested and shot 2500 Soviet civilians.[16]

On 19 October 1943 the Germans killed 1070 soviet civilians in the Ukrainian villages of Leninskij, Djjaki and Vdovin Hutor.[17]

On 11 April 1944 the Germans shot 584 soviet civilians in the city of Staryi Krym (Crimea).[18]

On 9 April 1944 the Germans shot up to 400 civilians in the village Kujaljnik of Oblast Odessa.[19]

On 27 November 1943, in the Russian village Krasuha, 280 soviet civilians were burned alive.[20]

In the Ukrainian village of Ozerjany, on 19 March 1943, 267 civilians were burned alive.[21]

In the Belorussian village of Matrenovka, on 20 May 1943, 253 civilians were burned alive.[22]

In January 1944, the Gestapo burned 250 civilians in the Ukrainian city of Bila Tserkva.[23]