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CONFRPT: PERPETRATORS OR VICTIMS? (GSAÂ 2008)
GSA 32nd Annual Conference, St. Paul, October 2-5, 2008 Panel 140: Perpetrators or Victims? Letters from German Soldiers at the Eastern Front, 1939-1945 Moderator: Gerhard Weinberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Lieutenant Peter Stoelten’s Letters: Loyal and not a Nazi” Astrid Irrgang, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes “Through My Father’s Eyes: From Accomplice to Victim” Konrad H. Jarausch, University…
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OSTARBEITER (EASTERN WORKERS)
“Ostarbeiter” (eastern workers) were mostly eastern European women brought to Germany for forced labor. They wore an “OST” identification patch (lower center of photograph) Germany, after 1942. Using the most brutal methods, Sauckel had been recruiting civilian Ostarbeiter (Eastern workers) in the Soviet Union. The German term for several million…
Freiwillige SS Reg. Warager
In March 1942 the formation of volunteer battalion began in Belgrad. It was done under the order of the Commander-in-Chief in the Balkans who wanted to recruit Russian volunteers for the landing operation near Novorossiysk. The battalion was formed under the command of Captain M. A. Semenov and was a…
Social Scientists and War Criminals
Martin Oppenheimer [from New Politics, vol. 6, no. 3 (new series), whole no. 23, Summer 1997] Martin Oppenheimer teaches sociology at Rutgers University. THE 49TH CORPS OF THE GERMAN ARMY REACHED THE CAUCASUS and took the city of Mikoyan Shakhar in August, 1942. Professor Nicholas Poppe, a member of the…
RUSSIAN NATIONALS IN GERMANÂ SERVICE
It is truly ironic that the most numerous units of foreign nationals raised by the Germans during World War II came from among the “sub-human” Slavs of the Soviet Union. Faced with waging war in a country of vast distances and infested with enemy partisans, the Germans had no choice…
Collaboration with Nazi Germany – The Soviet Union
Many inhabitants of the eastern portions of the Soviet Union, such as the Baltic States and Ukraine, openly welcomed the German army as their liberator and collaborated fully with it, until they discovered that German occupation policies were even more repressive than Soviet rule had been. In 1943 alone, as…
Ukraine and Nationalism WWII
INTERWAR UKRAINE The Ukrainian territories under Bolshevik control had been constituted as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which in 1922 became a founding member of the Soviet Union. Although it possessed all the structures and symbols of an independent state, Soviet Ukraine was effectively governed from Moscow. During the early…