>>10187543Well in the case of Soviet POWs the vast majority (60% of those killed) were killed in a single year 1941. They were hearded into pens where they were simply left to starve to death. Later in the war with manpower shortages POWs were used for labor but early in the war Germans simply wanted to exterminate them.
Pic related, one of the pens. Notice this isn’t your average holohoax camp with nice buildings and amenities. If you were going to exterminate people this is how you would do it, hold them in a place until they starved to death.