Stalin's War of Extermination, 1941-1945: Planning, Realization and Documentation

Cover
Back cover
Dr. Joachim Hoffmann
The Truth About Katyn - Report of Special Commission
Table of Contents
Foreword by Dr. Manfred Kehrig
Foreword by Professor Dr. Ernst Topitsch
Preface to the English Edition
Preface
1. May 5, 1941: Stalin Proclaims the War of Aggression
2. June 22, 1941: Hitler Preempts Stalin\'s Attack
3. Soviet Soldiers Were Driven into Combat by Terror
4. \"A Fighter in the Red Army Does Not Surrender\" - Soviet Soldiers Must Not Allow Themselves to be Taken Captive. Prevention of Flight Forward
5. Stalin\'s Terror Apparatus - The Creation of \"Mass Heroism\" and \"Soviet Patriotism\"
6. The \"Great Patriotic War\" - Soviet Propaganda and its Tools
7. Responsibility and Those Responsible - The Atrocities on Both Sides
8. \"Hitlerite Villains\" - Soviet Crimes Are Attributed to the Germans
9. Criminalization of the Wehrmacht - Racial and National Anti-German Incitement
10. All Along the Front, the First Prisoners of War Are Murdered as Early as June 22, 1941
11. \"To the Last Man\" - The Endless Murders of Prisoners of War
12. \"No Mercy, No Leniency\" - Atrocities of the Red Army upon Entering German Territory
13. \"Woe to Thee, Germany!\" - The Crimes Continue
Conclusions
Appendix
Abbreviations
Sources and Literature
	I. Archives
	II. Individual documents and manuscripts in the archives of the author
	III. Published sources and literature
Documents
	The Soviet war of aggression against Poland
	The Soviet war of aggression against Finland
	The planned Soviet war of aggression against Rumania
	Stalin\'s Speech on January 13, 1941
	Confirmation of the content of Stalin\'s speech of May 5, 1941
	Evidence for aggressive intentions of the Soviet Union against Germany
	Evidence for the mobilization of the Soviet Army
	Russian aggressive intentions against Germany
	Deterrent order of Marshall of the Soviet Union Timoshenko and of Army Commissar 1st Rank Mekhlis to the troops of the West Front of 7.7.1941
	Colonel Rogatin announces the Deterrent Order
	Deterrent order of the Main Military Prosecutor\'s Office of the USSR of 15.12.1941
	German front propaganda: attempts to win Soviet soldiers as allies
	Soviet Soldiers want to co-operate with the Germans to liberate Russia
	Soviet Order to kill all Germans
	Soviet Newspaper demands the extermination of all Germans
	Operational report of the Soviet 26th Tank Division (Lieutenant Colonel Kimbar, Major Khrapko), of 13.7.1941
	\"Vsego bylo rasstreljano 115 cel.\" All in all, 115 men were shot
	Call for the \"honourable\" execution of Stalin\'s order
	Soviet prisoners of war, on 18.1.1942, confirm that Stalin\'s order of 6.11.1941 for the destruction of all German soldiers was read aloud to them on a daily basis
	The murder of German prisoners of war continued without interruption until 1945. Murders of German prisoners investigated by German intelligence-reconnaissance in January/February 1945
	Order of the Military State Prosecutor of the 48th Army to all subordinate Military State Prosecutors of 23.1.1945 on the combating of atrocities and vandalism
	Remember, Remember, Remember by Ilya Ehrenburg - Soviet War News, December 22, 1944
	Once Again — Remember! - Soviet War News Weekly, January 4, 1945
	Wolves they were — Wolves they remain - Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet News Weekly, March 15, 1945
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