OST : letters, memoirs and stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany / Memorial International, Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya and Irina Scherbakova ; translated from the Russian by Georgia Thomson.
Originally published in Russian in 2016. Translated from the Russian.
Contents:
pt. 5 T̀here Was Nothing to Live on ...'. A Peacetime Childhood -- War -- Occupation -- pt. 2 Deportation -- pt. 3 Life in Germany -- Ỳou Are Ostarbeiter Now' -- In a State of Captivity -- Forced Labour -- After Work -- Through the Prism of War -- pt. 4 Between Germany and the USSR -- The Victors -- Repatriates -- pt. 5 Back Home in the Motherland -- T̀here Was Nothing to Live on ...'.
Summary:
"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." --Amazon.com.
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