SLAVE LABOURERS AND SABOTAGE

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Spontaneous and organized forms of disguised labor struggle must be distinguished from such individual acts of resistance. They required maximum cover, absolute reliability, technical ingenuity, and an orientation beyond the immediate situation. Sabotage was aimed not at husbanding physical energies but at harming the adversary, whether for reasons of personal revenge or for military or political motives. Consequently, it was…

FORCED LABOR 1939-1945

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Polesskaja Setsch

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HE WILL SOON LOSE THAT SMILE…

  …whether sharing a joke with his comrade or just happy to have survived…so far…   The war between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia (1941–1945) was arguably the largest and most brutal theater of land warfare in the twentieth century. Fueled by bitter ideological antagonism, the enormous cruelty at the…

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BEST BOOKS – The Third Reichs Eastern Legions and POWS

Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement: Soviet Reality and Emigré Theories Catherine Andreyev Review “Her main aim is to synthesize and comment on the political ideas of the Russians and others associated with what she properly calls not simply the ‘Vlasov movement’ but the Russian Liberation Movement….Her book includes a…

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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…

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Secret archive reveals how Russia showed huge support for ‘Christian crusader’ Nazi invaders who had come to fight ‘godless communists’

A group of Russians captured by the Nazis during Operation Barbarossa: Documents from secret archives have revealed how some Soviets believed the Germans were Christian crusaders come to throw of the yoke of communism. By Allan Hall An extraordinary secret archive has revealed for the first time how thousands of…

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Brotherhood of Veterans of the 1st-Division of the Ukrainian National Army

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE The purpose of this Web page is to present the factual and true information concerning the Galician Division, which fought against the Soviet Union within the framework of the German Army, during the Second World War. Since the end of the war the information media has been…

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Book Review: The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis: The Berlin Years, 1941-1945.

Klaus Gensicke. The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis: The Berlin Years, 1941-1945. Edgware: Vallentine Mitchell, 2010. 256 pp. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-85303-844-3.Reviewed by Norman Goda (University of Florida) Published on H-Judaic (December, 2011) Commissioned by Jason Kalman The Riddle of the Mufti The enduring nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,…

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The State of the German Forces Late 1944

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1942- One Last Opportunity: The German Experience with Indigenous Security Forces

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