As a result most of the prisoners of war (about 2 million) died from cold, hunger, diseases, and executions before February 1942.
«After I got out of the Kiev encirclement my life became complicated, I got into horrible scrapes… I went through four camps, the last of which was Alexandria in Kirovograd region where I had been once before but had escaped. It was there that I realized I must take revenge on the Nazis.»