Conquer the soviet union known as operation barbarossa he viewed much of whats now Eastern Europe as a site of repopulation for the germans the plan would have meant the extermination of the people already there that was of course the systematic massacre of millions of jews nearly all extermination camps were located in Eastern Europe some scholars estimate almost half of the 6000000 Holocaust Victims were soviet citizens camps are also established for soviet prisoners of war the nazis acted with exceptional savagery in their abuse of captured troops there was shot experimented on with gas or worked to death more than 3000000. 00 soviet prisoners were killed most of them by deliberate starvation. One war crime a was the hunt for about 500 soviet officers who discovered from the motos in nazi concentration camp in austria one of the witnesses to those events was her cult her family managed to save the lives of 2 soviet offices as wright n. T. I. Sarin salad they drove around the village