OST : letters, memoirs and stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany / Memorial International, Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya and Irina Scherbakova ; translated from the Russian by Georgia Thomson.
"An Ostarbeiter was an 'Eastern Worker', rounded up by Nazi Germany from the captured territories in Central and Eastern Europe. By the end of the war, it is estimated that approximately 3 million to 5.5. million Ostarbeiter were forced to work in guarded work camps, many of them youn...
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| Other title: | Znak ne sotretsi︠a︡. English |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Russian |
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London :
Granta,
2021.
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| Summary: | "An Ostarbeiter was an 'Eastern Worker', rounded up by Nazi Germany from the captured territories in Central and Eastern Europe. By the end of the war, it is estimated that approximately 3 million to 5.5. million Ostarbeiter were forced to work in guarded work camps, many of them younger than 16 years old - at which age they would be conscripted for military service. Ostarbeiter worked 12 hours a day on starvation on rations; as ethnic Slavs, they were treated with extraordinary brutality by Nazi guards who considered them 'sub-human' by the standards of the Aryan master race. They were distinguished by the label 'OST' sewn onto their uniforms." --Amazon.com. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in Russian in 2016. Translated from the Russian. Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xxv, 458 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781783785278 1783785276 |