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Germany puts names of 700,000 captured Soviets online

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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. “Now people will be able to do the research all by themselves,”…

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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…

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CONTROVERSY

Much has been written, with varying degrees of authority, on the RLM (Russian Liberation Movement, RLA (Russian Liberation Army) and General A.A. Vlasov. Andrey Vlasov General Andrey Vlasov General Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov (alternative transliterations of his names appear as Andrei Andreievich and as Vlassov or (in German) Wlassow) (September 14…

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RUSSIAN NATIONALS IN GERMAN 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…

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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…

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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…

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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

It is truly ironic that the most numerous units of foreign nationals raised by the…

OSTARBEITER (EASTERN WORKERS)

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