Pariahs Among Pariahs: Soviet-Jewish POWs in German Captivity, 1941–1945Aron Shneyer
Of a total of 5,745,000 Soviet POWs captured by German forces during World War II, at least three million died in captivity. It does not require much imagination to comprehend the terrible fate of Soviet-Jewish soldiers who fell into the hands of German forces charged with exterminating “Judeo-Bolsh...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 302-303 |
| Review of: | Pariahs among pariahs (Jerusalem : Yad Vashem, 2016) (Crim, Brian E.)
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| Summary: | Of a total of 5,745,000 Soviet POWs captured by German forces during World War II, at least three million died in captivity. It does not require much imagination to comprehend the terrible fate of Soviet-Jewish soldiers who fell into the hands of German forces charged with exterminating “Judeo-Bolshevism.” Aron Shneyer’s synthesis of archival research and testimony from numerous former Soviet republics relates considerably more information than his title suggests. While the heart of the text concerns the fate of approximately 85,000 Soviet-Jewish military personnel taken into captivity, Shneyer also meticulously reconstructs the history of Jews in the Soviet military services beginning with the Russian Civil War (1918–1922). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcy025 |