Soviet POWs were kept in especially unbearable conditions , and , although their extermination was not an official goal , 3.6 million Soviet POWs out of 5.7 died in Nazi camps during the war.. In addition to concentration camps , death camps were created in Nazi Germany to exterminate people at an industrial scale .
The Nazi soldiers did not intend to kill the Soviet POWs that were incarcerated in spite of keeping them in unbearable conditions .