World War II: Soviet Prisoners of War, Mauthausen Concentration Camp

In eight months of 1941-42, the invading German armies killed an estimated 2.8 million Soviet prisoners-of-war. The episode, according to Adam Jones, “vies with the genocide in Rwanda as the most concentrated mass-killing in human history.” There is good reason to think, Jones said, that this rate of killing “exceeds even the worst period of the Holocaust against the Jews.”

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WAR AND GENOCIDE?