Books Dealing with the Deportation of Russian-Germans

Compiled by J. Otto Pohl

Bachmann, Berta, trans. Duin, Edgar, Memories of Kazakhstan: A Report on the Life Experience of a German Woman in Russia (Lincoln, NE: AHSGR, 1983).

Bender, Ida, trans., Anderson, Laurel, Anderson, Carl and Wiest, William, The Dark Abyss of Exile: The Story of Survival (Fargo, ND: Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, North Dakota State University Libraries, 2000).

Daes, Nelly, ed. trans. Holland, Nancy, Gone without a Trace: German-Russian Women In Exile (Lincoln, NE: AHSGR, 2001).

Fleischhauer, Ingeborg and Pinkus, Benjamin, The Soviet Germans: Past and Present (London: C. Hurst and Company, 1986).

Kloberdanz, Timothy and Rosalinda, Thunder on the Steppe: Volga German Folklife in a Changing Russia (Lincoln, NE: AHSGR, 1993).

Koch, Fred, The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977).

Pohl, J. Otto, Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949 (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999).

Pohl, J. Otto, The Stalinist Penal System: A Statistical History of Soviet Repression and Terror, 1930-1953 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997).

Schmaltz, Eric J., An Expanded Bibliography and Reference Guide for the Former Soviet Union’s Ethnic Germans: Issues of Ethnic Autonomy, Group Repression, Cultural Assimilation, and Mass Migration in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Fargo, ND: GRHC, NDSU Libraries, 2002).

Sheehy, Ann and Nahaylo, Bohdan, The Crimean Tatars, Volga Germans and Meskhetians: Soviet Treatment of some National Minorities (London: Minority Rights Group, 1986).

Sinner, Samuel D., The Open Wound: The Genocide of German Ethnic Minorities in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1915-1949 and Beyond (Fargo, ND: GRHC, NDSU Libraries, 2000).

Toews, John B., Journeys: Mennonite Stories of Faith and Survival in Stalin’s Russia (Winnipeg, MAN: Kindred Productions, 1998). Books Dealing with the Internment of American-Germans

Compiled by Art Jacobs

Erik V. Wolter with Robert J. Masters , Loyalty on Trial: One American's Battle with the FBI. Loyalty on Trial provides a case study of how the government responded to what it perceived to be disloyal German American citizens during WWII, which parallels the way the government acts today as it struggles to find a balance between safeguarding civil liberties and assuring national security. The author offers an analysis of the issues raised then and now with a careful comparison of what is at stake for all Americans. This book is available by calling 1-877-288-4737 or visiting http://www.iUniverse.com

Contag, Kimberly E. and James A. Grabowska, Where the Clouds Meet the Water , follows the historical journey of the German Ecuadorian widower, Ernst Contag, and his four young children from their home in the South American Andes to Nazi Germany in 1942. Blacklisted as an enemy alien, Ernst Contag and his children are forcibly repatriated to the country of Ernst's grandparents as part of a diplomatic exchange arranged by the United States' State Department and cooperating countries. In Nazi Germany, Ernst and his children must deny their Ecuadorian past and learn to live as Germans. The Contag family strives to keep the ray of hope in their hearts when the Nazi oath of "blood and honor" leads to fear, abandonment, and death. The children and their father navigate an ever-shifting horizon as they face despair and fear in internment and refugee sites, separation, devastation and loss in Germany (1942-45), hunger and hopelessness in post-war France (1945-46), and hostility in their own Andean homeland. Through it all, the strength of family serves as the glue that holds them all together.

The book is available at Borders Books, Barnes 'n Noble and through Inkwater (www.inkwaterpress.com). Inkwater Press, 2004. ISBN 1-59299-073-8

Ursula Potter (Ursula Vogt Potter), The Misplaced American, published by and available through 1stBooks.com This story begins on December 9,1941, when Karl Vogt, a German national residing in the United States, was abruptly taken from his home near Plaza, Washington by agents of the F.B.I. and eventually sent to internment camps located in North Dakota, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and finally Montana. For nearly two years he was not told what the “evidence” was against him and he was never told who his accusers were. Left behind on the family farm, and also subjected to harassment by the United States government, were his wife, Elsie, and his two young children, all American citizens. Meanwhile, in war-torn Germany, Karl’s father and siblings endured and survived the horrors of the Nazi regime and the devastation of World War II. In the end, this is really a story about enduring love---the unconditional love of God; the love of a husband and wife for each other; the sustaining love of family members separated by the worst of circumstances; and also, amazingly, the love that Karl and Elsie continued to have for the United States, a country whose government betrayed them in the most onerous way. John Christgau, "Enemies" , A new edition ENEMIES has been released by iUniverse.com. It's available through their website, as well as the major chain bookstores. This book, one of the first, if not the first book, to open the door to many researchers and others, noting that others, besides Japanese Americans were interned in the United States during the Second World War.

Art Jacobs, The Prison Called Hohenasperg: An American boy betrayed by his Government during World War II, Universal Publishers (uPublish.com), FL., 1999. ISBN 1-58112-832-0. A synopsis of the book is included at the foregoing link. [6-3-99]

Arthur D. Jacobs is the coeditor with Joseph E. Fallon of The World War Two Experience, The Internment of German-Americans Volume IV of the five volume German-Americans in the World Wars. This work is published by K.G. Saur, Munich, Germany, 1995. This volume is in three sections:

1. From suspicion to internment: U.S. Government policy toward German- Americans, 1939-1948 2. Government preparation for and implementation of the repatriation of German- Americans, 1943-1948 3. German-American camp newspapers: Internees' view of life in internment

The documents for this work were obtained as the result of more than ten years of research. The majority of the material in this volume was obtained from the National Archives and Records Administration, Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A few of the documents were obtained from the private files of former internees. The research of this work was enhanced by the help from former internees, Americans of German heritage. The research continues. It is a slow process because the time it takes for many of the government agencies to respond to Freedom of Information and Privacy Act (FOI/PA) request.

Arnold Krammer, Undue Process, The Untold Story of America's German Alien Internees, the author of the highly acclaimed Nazi Prisoners of War in America. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, New York, 1997

Professor Arnold Krammer's book, Undue Process, has been published in the German language. Die Internierten Deutschen, Feindliche Ausländer in den USA 1941 - 1947, Universitas Verlag Tübingen, 1998. ISBN 3-924-898-24-3

Leslie V. Tischauser's book, The Burden of Ethnicity: The German Question in Chicago, 1914-1941, Garland Publishing, New York, 1990.

Max Paul Friedman, Nazis and Good Neighbors, Florida State University, (ISBN-10: 0521822467 | ISBN-13: 9780521822466) The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II. Based on research in seven countries, this international history uncovers an American security program in which Washington reached into fifteen Latin American countries to seize more than 4000 German expatriates and intern them in the Texas desert. The crowd of Nazi Party members, anti- fascist exiles, and even Jewish refugees were lumped together in camps riven by strife.

Books Dealing with the Destruction of the Germans of Eastern Europe Compiled by Julius Loisch

Victor Gollantz, OUR THREATENED VALUES, 1947 available free of charge from Alfred DeZayas. Hinsdale, Illinois

Alfred M. de Zayas, NEMESIS AT POTSDAM THE ANGLO-AMERICANS AND THE EXPULSIONOF THE GERMANS BACKGROUND, EXECUTION, CONSEQUENCES 1977 (sixth edition 2003) ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL London, Henley and Boston

Steven Bela Vardy and T. Hunt Tooley, ETHNIC CLEANSING in 20th –Century Europe 2003 Columbia University Press, New York

Alfred M. de Zayas, A Terrible Revenge 1994 (second edition 2000) St. Martin’s Press, New York

Alfred M. de Zayas, The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, 1989 (fourth Edition 2000) Picton Press, Rockport Maine, Maine

Hausner Foundation, Essays on Liberty and Human Rights, 2002 Oak Brook, Illinois, ISBN 0-9726775-2-6

Sidonia Dedina : "Edvard Benes – The Liquidator,” RFP Publications ISBN 0-9663968-4-7

John Sack, An EYE For an EYE The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, BASIC BOOKS ISBN 0-465-04214-7

John Dietrich, THE MORGENTHAU PLAN: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy, Algora Publishing, ISBN 1-893941-90-2

James Baque, CRIMES AND MERCIES, 1997 ISBN 0-7515-2277-5

James Baque, Other Losses, ISBN 1-55168-191-9

Elizabeth B. Walter, Barefoot in the Rubble, Author recounts her experiences as a child in post-war Yugoslav concentration camps for Germans, her expulsion from Yugoslavia and life in bombed-out Germany. ISBN 0-9657793-0-0

Compiled January 26, 2005