The Lesser of Two Evils War is the tool used by men to get what they want through the lives of many, and we have never seen a greater use of war than in the fields of Eastern Europe from June 1941 to May 1945. On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, ordered the German Wehrmacht to invade the Soviet Union in the east. This invasion lasted almost three weeks before Josef Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, carried out the operation against his country. The German army reached the gates of Moscow when its offensive was stopped, and so from that day in December, when the Germans reached their maximum level, until the day the fighting in Berlin ended in May 1945, the fields of Eastern Europe became the site of the deadliest conflict in human history. The two leaders turned their armies against each other, issuing orders to kill prisoners, execute civilians, and, in the case of the Soviets, even rape thousands of women across Eastern Europe. Although Stalin ultimately won the war, he proved to be the less supportive of the two leaders. The war on the Eastern Front of World War II can be seen as the deadliest part of the bloodiest war in human history. As the war progresses, the number of prisoners will increase, as that number increases, so does the risk of those prisoners being killed or simply dying naturally. , on the Eastern Front the risk of death was much higher than in normal conflicts. Prisoners captured by the Germans and Soviets in World War II faced the harshest treatment of any war ever seen. The Commissioner's Order issued by Hitler stated that “political officers were to be shot during capture” (Tucker and Wadley). The Order of Commissars was designed to destroy the willpower of the Soviet armies. The commissars were a political office... middle of paper... tern Front: World War II."). The Soviets knew that the German army was a shadow of its former self and they intended to make sure that the world knew that by sending in shattered their lines time and time again, casualties were no problem for the Soviets, as history has shown In the face of defeat a man is capable of two things: give up and surrender, or fight to the death defend what he has learned to love, in the war between the evil Soviet Union and the Third Reich a man was more likely to choose death before defeat The war on the Eastern Front of World War II saw some of the highest casualty rates in human history, with millions dead on both fronts. In the end millions of soldiers and civilians lay dead, miles and miles of Eastern Europe were engulfed in death and destruction, and in the end the victor became the one who paid the ultimate price.