Suppressed Terror: History and Perception of Soviet Special Camps in Germany

by Bettina Greiner

After World War II, 154,000 Germans were arrested by the Soviet secret police and held incommunicado in so-called special camps in the Soviet occupation zone. One third of the inmates did not survive captivity. Based on Russian and German sources, Displaced Terror: History and Perception of Soviet Special Camps in Germany offers a multi-layered account of this chapter of Stalinist persecution and mass violence, which has largely been suppressed to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739177435
• ISBN13: 9780739177433
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"