Initially, there was an order to shoot Soviet uniformed females on sight, but it was quickly rescinded. Still, plenty of female fighters were shot. They were commonly raped and tortured before that. And that started very early on. Of course, the treatment got more brutal as time went on and Germans got angrier. But plenty of women were not shot. Instead, they were mistreated in concentration and death camps. They were regularly raped by the guards (both Germans and locals) and tortured in ways that I can’t even describe. Naturally, they also had to work. And they were exterminated at will.
Pictured - Soviet female POWs who were taken in the summer of 1941.
