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Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

Hitler would never have kept his "no conflict" pact with Stalin, Hitler was a deranged fool who thought that the Russians and Polish were "sub human". It wasn't only Jews that he ordered sent to the concentration camps.

with poland being the country in ww2 where hitler killed the most jews (almost 3.000.000), most people dont realize the germans killed even more polish Catholics in poland then jews. the jewish lobby is just much better at reminding the world of how many of their own tribe got killed, compared to our willfully poor collective west european memory. the genocidal war initiated by the fascists in ww2 was on a massive industrialized scale, and had a disproportionately high death rate amongst civilians. once hitler's henchmen moved into russia the civilian casualty number became apocalyptic, with over 15 million civilians killed (compared to 12 million military russian casualties in the whole of ww2). less then 10% of those civilian casualties in russia were jews. much of that death toll was due to the indiscriminate bombardment and destruction of civilian area's by the germans, but also the executions squads that followed behind the advancing german troops to round up civilians, then mass deportation to concentration camps, and the forced relocation of civilians under starvation conditions etc. for the jewish populations of those central and east european countries however (for ex Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia etc), proportionately jews were more targeted as a subgroup then any other group, and in many of those eastern countries over 90% of them were killed during the german occupation (compared to 50% of jews in belgium, 70% in holland, 25% in france, 10% in denmark etc..)

with those high numbers of russian military deaths (and in the early part of the war 100.000's of russians surrendering, many of whom would later die in captivity), it indicates stalins total disregard to his own population and how he used massive numbers of poorly trained men from other parts of russia to try to halt the german advance, fight them to a standstill, and then push them back (2 years later) . iirc the death ratio on the eastern front was at least around 5 russian soldiers for every german killed. at the time the russians halted the german advances (with germans affected by over stretched supply lines), there was very little allied millitary aid to russia. it was basically the indiscriminate sacrifice of a very high number of russians (both military and civilian) by stalin that stopped the german advances, giving the russians just enough time to start rearming themselves with basic war supplies from factories located further east (combined with the russian winter, during which german equipment and soldiers were under-performing, while the russians performed better).

comparing ww1 and ww2 casualty lists, there is an obvious difference in civilian vs military numbers
WWI 95% of casualties were Military Dead, and 5% Civilian Dead
WWII 33% of casualties were Military Dead and 67% Civilian Dead (with over 80% of all those civilian deaths being in poland and russia)

most of those civilian deaths were caused by the germans as a deliberate act of targeting the "sub human races of the east" (not the jews), which was exacerbated by stalin's total disregard of his own civilians. hitlers main purpose of moving east was to create "lebens raum" (living space) for his german race, and he/they saw the eastern lands as populated by subhumans that could just be exterminated with their land free for the taking. with the russians being fairly poor opponents during the 800 years of the austro-hungarian empire, hitler seriously miscalculated how different an industrialized mechanized war would be against an adversary that significantly outnumbered him, compared to the old days of horse and cart when russia was feudal empire populated by uneducated peasants.

it is no surprise the current russian government is trying to put in place some elements that help remember the terrible death toll and destruction that took place in the east during ww2 (including the possible funding of our il2 flightsim series), so that this theater of war does not get forgotten (or overshadowed by western selective memory of how the war affected them). with western countries dominating the world media and press, their selective remembrance of events that affected these western countries risks creating globally a distorted perspective of the horrors of ww2