Open AccessNazi Collaborators in the Soviet Union during and after World War II
Author(s) -
Boris Kovalev
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
refuge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1920-7336
pISSN - 0229-5113
DOI - 10.25071/1920-7336.21967
Subject(s) - punitive damages , nazism , soviet union , world war ii , genocide , nazi germany , political science , punishment (psychology) , law , economic history , history , psychology , politics , social psychology
Based on documents for the Russianarchives, which in the early 1990s became open to the researchers,the author gives an account of the problem of collaboratingwith Nazi Germany in the USSR during World War II. He discusses the role of special punitive detachments, formed from the local populations in the occupied territories, in assisting Nazis in their policyof terror and genocide. A brief history ofthe infamous 667th punitive battalion,"Shelon, " and some of its members serves asan illustrative example. The author alsoexplains why so many Nazi collaboratorsfrom the former Soviet Union managed toescape punishment and settle in theWestern countries, Canada and the UnitedStates in particular, and also traces thehistory of some of them.