Moscow, Nauka Publishing House. 1970. 586 p. The print run is 20,000. Price 2 rubles 43 kopecks. The participation of Soviet people who escaped from captivity in the Resistance movement and their contribution to the fight against fascism have long been the subject of scientific research1 . Much less well-known until recently was the heroic struggle of Soviet people who found themselves in Hitler's death camps or were taken to Nazi hard labor in Germany. The vast majority of active participants in the struggle died in the dungeons of the Gestapo, on the scaffolds, in the furnaces of crematoriums, taking with them to the grave the secrets of their courageous unequal duel with a cruel enemy, and sometimes even their names. It is clear that they tried not to provide the enemy with written evidence. Many archives of Nazi prisons and camps were also destroyed. So the range of extant sources attesting to this struggle is relatively small. Only in letters from the German rear addressed to Wehrmacht soldiers at the front and found among the trophies of the Red Army, there were sometimes references to the escape of Soviet people and the damage that their actions caused to the fascist economy. Sometimes laconic reports about the actions of "saboteurs" were published on the pages of Nazi newspapers. After the war, a few patriots who went through the torments of captivity and hard labor and came out of the fire of war alive, published their memoirs. Some of their comrades in the struggle - German and foreign anti-fascists-also told about the exploits of Soviet people in their memoirs .2It is not surprising that in the historical literature about the Second World War, this topic is attracting more and more attention. Brief references to the exploits of the Soviet people and, in particular, to their creation of the secret organization BSV in Munich ("Brotherhood of Soviet Prisoners of War") are contained in the speeches of W. Ulbricht3 , in some works of German Marxist historians ... Читать далее