Poluda V. The status of the prisoners of war in Nazi camps in the territory of Reichskommisariat Ukraine and in the zone of German military administration.(1941-1944).

The postgraduate's thesis is a first complex research of the prisoners' of war status in Reichskommisariat Ukraine and in the zone of the military occupation наs been written on a base of a wide range of sources and scientific literature. A characteristic feature of this scientific work is a new vision of prisoners' life during hard events of The Second World War. The history of studying and the state of the ascertaining have been analyzed in the work, the sources have been researched and the methodological principles have been determined in the thesis. The author based on German and Soviet archive documents for a thesis writing. This scientific work deals with different aspects of the military captivity in Ukraine under Nazi rule. The peculiarities of the judicial status and a German security services' influence have been studied. The food supply and medical service of the prisoners of war have been characterized on the base of the sources and scientific information. Prisoners' of war labour using and their manning to German auxiliary units have been studied. The imprisoned people became a part of German military resources. The Soviet Union named captive Red Army servicemen criminals and discriminated them officially. Communist ruler Stalin claims that prisoners of war are public enemies for the Soviet state. Nazi Germany determined the prisoners of war as deadly enemies of Hitler's political regime. The author comes to the conclusion that German and Soviet authorities have broken the main international documents in the field of military captivity. Stalin claims that prisoners of war are public enemies for the Soviet state. The prisoners of war were one of the most submitted social groups in the occupied areas of the USSR. Sometimes repressive units of the Nazi special services killed them. Prisoners did not accept an aid from international charitable organizations, such as International Committee of Red Cross. The author describes prisoners of war as the victims of Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes. These people lived under impossibly bad conditions in the Nazi special camps. Every man has the basic rights but Red Army captives did not have any rights. The bad food supply caused the mass hunger and high death rate in POW camps. Medical service in the camps was undeveloped; the German doctors did not want to help prisoners really. Many prisoners of war have become the forced workers of Nazi regime. They worked in all branches of German economy during war. Forced labour in Germany is the crime against humanity by International Military Trial decisions. German military command tried to mobilize the Soviet prisoners of war to the Wehrmacht auxiliary units. Passage to the German military formations was a chance for a living for many prisoners. Totalitarian regimes used prisoners of war for the interests of German economy and security. Thesis has four chapters. Work is very readable and interesting.