Reply #50: Livre Noir [View All]

I am hoping you are not getting your numbers from that book. You are aware that most historians and experts in Soviet history consider the Livre Noir to be nothing more than pure propaganda?

Yes, there was mass deportation of ethnic Germans living in eastern Ukraine. They were sent over the Urals and settled in the steppes. But not many of them died in the journey. Also, let's keep in mind that almost everyone starved in the USSR during the war (except the Stalinists, of course!), and much of that is due to the fact that 90 percent of their trade had been cut by the Nazis.

Another thing: There were some areas that did greet the Nazis when they entered the western Ukraine. However, within six months, most of those who had greeted the Germans were now in partizan units because their families had been massacred by the SS.

Martin