The Gradual Increase of Nazi Persecution of the soviet soldiers

  • Law Against “Criminals”

    Nazi officials could keep prisoners as long as thay wanted to as well as ship them to concentration camps.the military soldiers that would be in jail and they could send them to concentration camps or they would be killed.
  • Mandatory military service

    If you wanted to join the military you had to be aryan. If you were Jewish You could not join the military. If you were not Aryan and you were any other race you could not join. it meant that certain people could not serve in the military
  • Nazi soviet pact

    Nazi germany and the Soviet Union signed a secret agreement stating not to attack each other for 10 years and agreed to divided eastern Europe. The reason this is persecution is that they broke the agement
  • First Prisoners Arrive at Auschwitz

    in june 1940 all Christian and Jewish people were put into concentration camps and most of them went to the most popular camp of all Auschwitz and were imprisoned for years and tested on and killed. The soldiers were sent to concentration camps.
  • German Military Issues Commissar Order

    This law allowed German soldiers to execute commissars who were officials in the Soviet Communist Party assigned to Soviet military units. they could kill anyone from the Soviet military meaning that all the soldiers could be killed.
  • Germany Invades the soviet Union

    Breaking the August 1939 non-aggression pact, Nazi Germany launched a surprise invasion of the Soviet Union and the areas occupied by the Soviet Union (including Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia).
  • Mass Murder Begins at Chelmno

    Chelmno was the first Major killing operation in order to annihilate the Jewish population. Chelmno was also the first location to use gas to mass-murder Jews. At least 172,000 Jews and others were killed here. The soldiers had to fight.
  • a soviet soldier that got Persecuted Aleksandr tolupow

    He was sent to Auschwitz. He was treated very poorly.
  • Announcement of Death Penalty for Aiding Jews

    people that were hiding jews they will be sent to death penalty. the army that helps the Jews of the Soviet soldiers would die if they helped.
  • Allies Condemn Mass Murder

    The Nazi Germany wanted to have a declaration of the policy of “Cold-Blooded extermination and vowed that the perpetrators of the atrocities would not escape punishment after the war.