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Allied prisoners marching along a road , Russia, 1942. Between 4 and 5.7 million Russian soldiers were captured by the Germans in World War II. The Nazis regarded them as racially inferior and their treatment was extremely harsh, with many forced to work as slave labour. An estimated 2.7 to 3.3 million Soviet POWs died in German captivity. A print from Signal, Febuary 1942. Signal was a magazine published by the German Third Reich from 1940 through 1945.