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- Title
The Liberating Experience: War Correspondents, Red Army Soldiers, and the Nazi Extermination Camps.
- Authors
KONDOYANIDI, ANITA
- Abstract
The article explores the experience of Soviet soldiers in World War II during the liberation of Nazi concentration camps in occupied Poland. It examines the liberation of the camps at Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka and Auschwitz. It utilizes soldiers' letters and memoirs as well as transcripts from the Red Army's political department meetings in order to show how Soviet soldiers reacted to what they saw and experienced. It also discusses how Soviet soldiers developed a deep hatred for Nazis based on what they saw during the period of liberation and from the hate propaganda produced by the Soviet government.
- Subjects
POLAND; SOVIET Union; CONCENTRATION camp liberation in World War II; WORLD War II Soviet personal narratives; MAJDANEK (Poland : Concentration camp); SOLDIERS' letters; SOVIET soldiers' writings; TREBLINKA (Concentration camp); WORLD War II -- Propaganda; SOVIET Union. Raboche-Krestianskaia Krasnaia Armiia; SOBIBOR (Poland : Concentration camp); AUSCHWITZ concentration camp
- Publication
Russian Review, 2010, Vol 69, Issue 3, p438
- ISSN
0036-0341
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9434.2010.00575.x