People and procedures: toward a history of the investigations of Nazi crimes in the USSR
TitlePeople and procedures: toward a history of the investigations of Nazi crimes in the USSR
Author
Call number940.53180947/0004
Object number08969f
Place of publicationPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
Year of publication
2014
Physical descriptionpp118-141
MaterialArticle
Series titlePitt series in Russian and East European studies
Kritika historical studies
ISBN9780822962939
NotesArticle from the book 'The Holocaust in the East' pp118-141
Description
The Extraordinary State Commission was created on November 2, 1942 by decree of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. It fulfilled its representational function during the war, and in the postwar years faithfully kept the topic of war crimes sealed off from Soviet society. The documentary materials it created and collected have turned out to be the latest Russian mass grave. While excavating it, historians will face the task of distinguishing 'ours' from 'others' and executioners from victims