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Book Review: Der Weg zurück: Die Repatriierung sowjetischer Zwangsarbeiter während und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.
Ulrike Goeken-Haidl. Der Weg zurĂĽck: Die Repatriierung sowjetischer Zwangsarbeiter während und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2006. 574 pp. EUR 39.90 (paper), ISBN 978-3-89861-615-7. Reviewed by Leonid Rein (International Institute for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem)Published on H-German (July, 2009)Commissioned by Susan R. Boettcher The Origins of the Cold War The front cover of Ulrike Goeken-Haidl’s book is somewhat…
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The Third Reichs Eastern Legions and POWS–Glossary
BARBAROSSA, OPERATION Hitler’s code name for his invasion of the Soviet Union, launched on 22 June 1941. It was the greatest military conflict of the modern era and the greatest land invasion in the history of modern warfare. It was also one of the greatest betrayals of history, since Stalin…
Soviet PoW and Polish and Soviet Civilians – The Holocaust?
Of the 5,700,000 Soviet soldiers who surrendered to the Germans during World War II, more than 3,000,000 were either shot shortly after capture, starved to death in prisoner of war camps, gassed in extermination camps, or worked to death in concentration camps. They are usually ignored in books about the…
Russia reflects on sixty-five years since the Soviet Union’s World War Two victory
This online supplement is produced and published by Rossiyskaya Gazeta (Russia), which takes sole responsibility for the content. Alexander Mekhanik, Expert magazine Something has changed in Russia. Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the values on which Soviet society was based – and after two decades…
Book Review: Der Weg zurück: Die Repatriierung sowjetischer Zwangsarbeiter während und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.
Ulrike Goeken-Haidl. Der Weg zurĂĽck: Die Repatriierung sowjetischer Zwangsarbeiter während und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2006. 574 pp. EUR 39.90 (paper), ISBN 978-3-89861-615-7. Reviewed by Leonid Rein (International Institute for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem)Published on H-German (July, 2009)Commissioned by Susan R. Boettcher The Origins of the Cold…
Traitors to the fatherland?
PHL Posters in light-boxes in Lviv praised the SS Galicia, a Ukrainian unit that fought under Nazi Germany, as defenders of the nation against Soviet aggression. Nationalist politician Oleh Tyahnybok placed the ads. The debate still rages over the SS Galicia, hailed by some as anti-Soviet nationalists. They are either…
Book Review:An der Seite der Wehrmacht: Hitlers ausländische Helfer beim “Kreuzzug gegen den Bolschewismus” 1941-1945.
Rolf-Dieter MĂĽller. An der Seite der Wehrmacht: Hitlers ausländische Helfer beim “Kreuzzug gegen den Bolschewismus” 1941-1945. Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag, 2007. 280 pp. ISBN 978-3-86153-448-8; EUR 24.90 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-86153-448-8. Reviewed by Jeff Rutherford (Department of History, Wheeling Jesuit University)Published on H-German (April, 2009)Commissioned by Susan R. Boettcher A Reappraisal…