Prestupleniya nacistov i ih posobnikov na okkupirovannoj territorii Severo-Zapada Rossii (1941—1944 gg.)

Abstract

The leadership of the Third Reich viewed the North-West of Russia as a region that was supposed to become part of “Greater Germany”. This determined the specificity of the region. From the summer of 1941 to January 1944, the frontline was not far from both Leningrad and Novgorod. Under the conditions of the Nazi occupation regime, monuments of material culture were to be destroyed; local residents and Soviet prisoners of war were to be killed. From the beginning of autumn 1943, the invaders began the mass deportation of the population of the North-West of Russia to the West, behind the Panther line: to the Baltic states and Germany. Latvian and Estonian collaborators were active assistants of the Nazis in the implementation of their criminal policy.