OST

Letters, Memoirs and Stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany

OST
Georgia Thomson, Georgia MEMORIAL
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Hardback
h234 x 156mm - 496pg
7 Oct 2021 UK
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9781783785278
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An Ostarbeiter was an ' Eastern Worker' , rounded up by Nazi Germany from the captured territories in Central and Eastern Europe. By the end of the war, it is estimated that approximately 3 million to 5. 5. million Ostarbeiter were forced to work in guarded work camps, many of them younger than 16 years old - at which age they would be conscripted for military service. Ostarbeiter worked 12 hours a day on starvation on rations; as ethnic Slavs, they were treated with extraordinary brutality by Nazi guards who considered them ' sub-human' by the standards of the Aryan master race. They were distinguished by the label ' OST' sewn onto their uniforms. OST is based on over two hundred personal accounts, hundreds of hours of interviews, and over 350,000 letters. This important publication will ensure that the voices of the brutalised and displaced Ostarbeiter will not be forgotten.
MEMORIAL International is a Russian historical and civil rights society focused on recording and publicising the Soviet Union' s totalitarian past, and monitoring human rights in Russia and other post-Soviet states. Georgia Thomson is a translator from Russian to English. She studied at the Institut Superieur d' Interpretation et de Traduction (ISIT) in Paris and went on to attain a First Class Honours degree in Russian and French. She lived in Moscow for several years and is now based in London.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781783785278
Published: 7 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Books
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 496

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