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Book Review: Der Weg zurück: Die Repatriierung sowjetischer Zwangsarbeiter während und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.

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Ulrike Goeken-Haidl. Der Weg zurück: 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 Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization

The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, MemorializationEdited by Ray Brandon and Wendy LowerIndiana University Press/ US Holocaust Memorial Museum392 pages; $35 This extensive collection of studies on the Holocaust in Ukraine originated in the summer research workshop held at the US Holocaust Museum in 1999. Since then, the editors –…

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NEW ASPECTS OF ANDREI VLASSOV

The Russian Army of Liberation (ROA): Corrective Revision by Russian Historians By Wolfgang Strauss On a spring day in East Prussia in 1945 an officer of the Red Army observed a mounted sergeant flaying a young Russian captive with a long leather knout. The captive was exhausted, half naked and…

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UKRAINE STRUGGLES WITH WWII LEGACY

Vladimir Matveyev Special to the Jewish Times MAY 08, 2005 Kiev, Ukraine The upcoming celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory in World War II is bringing issues that long have roiled Ukrainian-Jewish relations to the surface. In the center of the controversy are two wartime combat groups…

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DEATHS IN SOVIET UNION

For those interested in how many Soviets, civilians and military personnel, died in the Second World War here is an excellent breakdown created by an Axis History Forum member Nick Terry: There are so many different estimates simply because most of them are done by incompetent researchers. Here’s how TOTAL…

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THE UKRAINIAN INSURGENT ARMY: THE WORLD WAR II COMBATANTS IN UKRAINE

Although they have not yet been recognized by the Ukrainian state as war veterans who deserve official government pensions, the former soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) can justly be considered the unsung heros of World War II in Ukraine. In its struggle against the German and Soviet occupational…

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The UVV armlet In spring 1943 the Ukrainians who served in Wehrmacht and in some of the Schutzmannschaft Bataillonen were put together into Ukrainian Liberation Army (UVV). The former ‘hiwi’, some UPA members, volunteers from Eastern Ukraine, 200 persons from Vlasov Officers’ school in Saubersdorf and Soviet prisoners of war…

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The Organization of the Eastern Troops, 5 May 1943

How To Use the Formation Tables BelowThe tables below provide the organization of the Eastern…

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…

RUSSIAN NATIONALS IN GERMAN SERVICE

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OSTARBEITER (EASTERN WORKERS)

“Ostarbeiter” (eastern workers) were mostly eastern European women brought to Germany for forced labor. They…