Original sentence: Already weakened by disease, starvation and lack of medical care during the encirclement, they were sent on death marches (75,000 survivors died within the first 3 months after capture) to prisoner camps and later to labour camps all over the Soviet Union
Edited sentence: Already weakened by disease, starvation and lack of medical care during the encirclement, the Soviets murdered the captured PoW's by sending them on death marches (75,000 survivors died within the first 3 months after capture) to prisoner camps and later to labour camps all over the Soviet Union.However, Bartov fails to take note of the mass murder and atrocities committed by the Soviet Union