Administrative Collaborationism in the Occupied Districts of the Kaluga Region in the 1941–1943s

Abstract

On the basis of numerous journalistic and archive material, the article analyzes features characterizing the development of administrative collabora-tionism in various areas of the Kaluga region. The author, using a comparison technique, induction, classification, and synthesis, comes to a conclusion that development of collaboration formation conditions has been influenced by the nature of occupation caused by a certain territory status.At first, the invaders created the most necessary institutions of primary power for them such as chiefs and burgomasters in the cities. Later, during the development of the occupied territory, a system of district, regional and volost administration was formed.The study showed that the activities of the collaborative administration were controversial, they focused both on the direct execution of the German command’s instructions, and relatively on satisfying the requests of the civilian population if these activities did not go to the detriment of the invaders’ interests.