[Larry381]

A true story some might find interesting.
In the summer of 1941 during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a German infantry unit came across an abandoned village in the Ukraine. The cottages were overgrown with foliage but were otherwise in tolerable condition. As they searched the place they came across a root cellar with signs of having been recently lived in. It turned out that a former collective farmer, who had lived in the village was still alive and still living there.The recluse was dressed in rags and was clearly insane. From what the Germans could determine the farmer's whole family had starved to death years before along with many other inhabitants of this out-of-the-way village.The rest had apparently disappeared. The unit found a graveyard with about 40 graves, many of them dating from the early thirties. The Germans fed the farmer and left him a small package of food when they abandoned the godforsaken village.

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The Germans fed the farmer and left a small package of food?

If the villagers were alive when they arrived, I am sure the Nazis would have left the villagers to the same fate - a mass grave.