 Complete the following phrase:  As an escaped POW, Pechersky was conscripted into a special penal battalions, conforming to Stalins Order No. 270 and was sent to the front to fight German forces in some of the toughest engagements of the war. Pecherskys battalion commander, Major Andreev, was so shocked by his description of Sobibor that he permitted Pechersky to go to Moscow and speak to the 