UKRAINIANS, RUSSIANS AND POLES IN GERMANY’S ARMED FORCES, 1939–1945: COMPARATIVE ANALYZIS

Abstract

The article raises a question of the service of Russians, Ukrainians and Poles, in Germany’s Armed Forces during World War II. The work is an attempt of general comparation of Nazi policy in the recruitment of these nationalities within the Wehrmacht.  This work break new ground in the investigation of military utilization of Eastern European Slavs by the Third Reich.