Rusai Lietuvoje vokiečių okupacijos metais (1941–1944)

• Authors: Regina Laukaitytė

Abstracts

EN

The article analyzes the Russian residents’ (who lived in the country for many years or landed in Lithuania due to war circumstances) position and political orientation in 1941–1944. The strongest focus is laid on activities of the Bureau of the Trustee for Russian Residents established in March 1943. This Bureau both spread the Nazi propaganda and conscripted the youth into the German security police, attended to the fellow Russians evacuated from the USSR etc. According to Aleksej Stavrovski, the trustee of the Bureau, in 1943 around 1,000, i.e. 1 percent of the Russians of Lithuania, participated in the ‘active fight’ (the German army, police units and transport service). A few more thousands of them were shipped or went voluntarily to work in Germany. It is difficult to identify the ratio of the political sentiment among the Russian residents, but the German occupation authorities managed to rally quite influential forces for their propaganda. Among them were the leaders of the Old Believers and Orthodox Churches and the above mentioned Bureau of the Trustee for Russian Residents. The position, political sentiment of the Russian community basically coincided with the general situation of the public in Lithuania. They were not the ‘fifth column’ of the Soviet regime, but the reasons and scope of collaboration with the Germans did not exceed the usual local standard either.

• Publisher: Lietuvos istorijos institutas
• Journal: Lietuvos istorijos metraštis
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 57-69

Dates

published

2010

Contributors

author

Regina Laukaitytė

• Lietuvos istorijos institutas

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

57626881