Stalin’s defectors: how Red Army Soldiers became Hitler’s collaborators, 1941-1945

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Notes

1. For an interpretation of Stalin’s view of Soviet POWs, see Tolstoy, The Secret Betrayal, p. 34. Russian researcher Igor Petrov provides a detailed list of senior Soviet leaders’ quotes regarding the status of Russian POWs in German custody in ‘The Lost Quotation Service-5.’ See also Chuev, Cursed Soldiers.

2. Traitors and Turncoats during the Great Patriotic War,” Military-Political Review, 25 May 2012.

3. Edele, Stalin’s Defectors, 17.

4. Edele, Stalin’s Defectors, 23.

5. For a discussion of the postwar definitions of these terms, see Riehle, “Early Cold War evolution of British and US.”

6. ‘On “Mass Treason” during the Great Patriotic War,’ Military Review, 22 June 2011.

7. Edele, Stalin’s Defectors, 9.

8. Edele, Stalin’s Defectors, 178.

9. Riehle, Insider Information, 140–142.

10. Edele, Stalin’s Defectors, 38–39.

11. Edele, Stalin’s Defectors, 36.

12. Edele, Stalin’s Defectors, 94–119.

13. See MacKenzie, “The Treatment of Prisoners,” 504–512, for a discussion of Germany’s uneasy policy toward Soviet POWs.