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Germany puts names of 700,000 captured Soviets online
German authorities put online Monday the names of 700,000 captured Soviet soldiers, most of whom died in horrific Nazi prison camps during the Second World War. The lists had previously been kept by German authorities who help people in former Soviet nations to discover how their menfolk died. âNow people will be able to do the research all by themselves,â…
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British Returning Soviet Prisoners end of WWII
Betrayal of Cossacks at Lientz. Painting by S.G.Korolkoff At first the administration had no reservations about handing over to the Russians even unwilling Soviet citizens. In June 1945, for example, the Combined Chiefs of Staff authorized SACMED Field Marshal Alexander to transfer to the Soviet authorities approximately 50,000 Cossacks who…
Germany puts names of 700,000 captured Soviets online
German authorities put online Monday the names of 700,000 captured Soviet soldiers, most of whom died in horrific Nazi prison camps during the Second World War. The lists had previously been kept by German authorities who help people in former Soviet nations to discover how their menfolk died. âNow people…
Soviet Prisoners of War, 1941 to 1945
Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) constitute one of the major groups that fell victim to Nazi German mass violence. For territories under German military occupation, the Department of Military Administration, Quartermaster General in the Supreme Command of Ground Troops (OKH) was in charge of Soviet POWs, whereas in Germany and…
NEU EUROPA â NO ROOM FOR RUSSIANÂ ĂMIGRĂS
The Russian Ă©migrĂ©s would certainly not be welcomed back. Not only had they done nothing for their homeland, but the simple fact was that âRussia had been conquered with German blood for the protection of Europe against Russiaâ. When shortly after the German invasion of the USSR the Russian Grand…
Soviet POWS in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Although there were a large number of Nazi concentration camps, the one that since World War II has come to represent them all and act as a symbol of the atrocity of the Holocaust is Auschwitz-Birkenau, whose remains continue to be visited by many thousands of tourists every year. Situated…
Book Review: Der Weg zurĂŒck: Die Repatriierung sowjetischer Zwangsarbeiter wĂ€hrend und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.
Ulrike Goeken-Haidl. Der Weg zurĂŒck: Die Repatriierung sowjetischer Zwangsarbeiter wĂ€hrend 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…