Viktor Kirillovich Klets,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Oles Honchar Dnepr National University, Dnipro, Ukraine, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Soviet German Women in the Underground Movement in the Dnepropetrovsk Region
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2021-3-3
The article examines the issue of the participation of Soviet German women in the struggle under the conditions of the underground on the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region during the Great Patriotic War. One of the fronts of the war was the front behind enemy lines, where hundreds of thousands of members of the underground, partisans, who made a significant contribution to achieving victory over the enemy. This front had no offensive or defensive operations. The struggle consisted in putting up leaflets, in helping the wounded and prisoners of war, in economic sabotage, in sabotage activities, etc. And this was its peculiarity. Representatives of various nationalities, including Germans, took part in the underground movement. Two of them (A.V. German and R.A. Klein) were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for their merits in the struggle behind enemy lines, many remained unknown heroes of the underground. The author analyses the question of the reasons for the participation of the German population in the struggle against their fellow tribesmen under the rather lighter conditions of their life in the occupation. The German women who participated in this struggle deserve special respect. After all, this is a special struggle – without the rear, often without support nearby. However, they also did not stay out of it, contributing to the victory. The article describes the specific activities of K.A. Tabler-Novikova, E.A. Nevgomonnaya, L.A. Schmidt-Fribus in the occupied territory of the Dnepropetrovsk region. The article is fully based on the documents of the State Archives of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Publishing: 28/06/2021
The article has been received by the editor on 04.04.2021
How to cite: Klets V.K. Soviet German Women in the Underground Movement in the Dnepropetrovsk Region // Historical Courier, 2021, No. 3 (17), pp. 25–31. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2021/ISTKURIER-2021-3-03.pdf
Links: Issue 3 2021
Keywords: Resistance movement; Dnepropetrovsk region; “Volksdeutsche”; soviet Germans; K.A. Tabler-Novikova; E.A. Nevgomonnaya; L.A. Schmidt-Fribus; anti-fascist group; underground komsomol youth organisation