Operation Barbarossa and its Aftermath

Dr. Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe is Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has published several books and articles and has edited three volumes about the Holocaust in East Central Europe, transnational fascism in Western and Eastern Europe, and the history of multiethnic cities. He was a fellow of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, the Jewish Claims Conference, the Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien, the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, and the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research.

Introduction

Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe



Part I: Military



Chapter 1. The Italian Army Faced with the Antipartisan Warfare and the “Jewish Question” on the Eastern Front, 1941–43

Raffaello Pannacci



Chapter 2. Bystanders or Protectors? The Spanish Blue Division, the Eastern front, and the Jews (1941-44)

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas



Chapter 3. The Slovakian Army and the War of Annihilation against the Soviet Union 1941-1943

Jan Vondráček



Part II: Partisans



Chapter 4. Militarization of Jews in Soviet Partisan Units in Lithuania and Belarus during The Second World War

Daniela Ozacky Stern



Chapter 5. The Holocaust in 1941 as Part of Security Warfare in the Rear of the Eastern Front, in Light of the Nazis’ Security Apparatus and Policy

Vlasta Kordova



Part III: Solidarity



Chapter 6. Colleagues among the persecuted: Solidarity among Hungarian forced laborers during Operation Barbarossa in the light of immediate post-war memoirs and retribution documents

Istvan Pal Adam



Part IV: Science, Ideology and Propaganda



Chapter 7. The Misadventures of Private Neaţă: Propaganda, Instruction, and Identity in the Romanian Army, 1940-1944

Grant Harward                                       



Chapter 8. A Swan Song of Polish Fascism. The Eastern Front, Holocaust and the Polish attempts of political and intellectual collaboration with the Third Reich (1941-1945).

Grzegorz Krzywiec



Chapter 9. “A War With the Weapons of Science”: the Behring-Institute for Typhus Fever Research in Lviv 1942-1944

Heidi Hein-Kircher



Part V: Memory



Chapter 10. People with Disabilities under the Nazi Occupation of the North Caucasus: Victims with(out) memory in Soviet and modern Russia

Irina Rebrova



Chapter 11. An Integrated Barbarossa: Concluding Discussion

Per Anders Rudling