Book contents
- Joining Hitler’s Crusade
- Joining Hitler’s Crusade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The National Armies
- Part II The Volunteers
- Part III Collaborators from within the Soviet Union
- 13 The Baltic States: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
- 14 The Soviet Union
- Index
14 - The Soviet Union
from Part III - Collaborators from within the Soviet Union
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2017
- Joining Hitler’s Crusade
- Joining Hitler’s Crusade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The National Armies
- Part II The Volunteers
- Part III Collaborators from within the Soviet Union
- 13 The Baltic States: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
- 14 The Soviet Union
- Index
Summary
In post-war Soviet historiography the question of collaboration with the German occupation forces was not posed as such. In the official memoirs of Soviet partisans and commanders, and in some works published in the West, there were oblique mentions of ‘turncoats’, of ‘these renegades and scum’, of ‘people with their roots in the former exploiting classes’, and of the creation of anti-Soviet formations from among local populations. The participants in these formations were almost always presented as former criminals and nationalists.
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- Joining Hitler's CrusadeEuropean Nations and the Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941, pp. 369 - 426Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017