Jeńcy sowieccy na ziemiach polskich w czasie II wojny światowej pod red. Jakuba Wojtkowiaka.

According to various estimates from 4.5 to 5.7 million Soviet POWs were taken to German captive from June 1941 to the end of World War II. Their tragedy is one of those topics that are still waiting for a place in the memory of Europeans. These POWs were the second largest group after the Jews, which was subjected to massive and deliberate extermination. They died of starvation, cold and diseases in hundreads of prison camps in the Third Reich and the occupied territories. At least half a million died on the current Polish territory.

Fugitive Soviet POWs sometimes found shelter in the Formations of the Polish Underground. They were the first largest group of foreigners taking part in the Warsaw Uprising. At the same time some of the POWs infamously enrolled in memory of Poles, forming the Warsaw Uprising pacifying units after the transition to the German service or serving in the extermination camps. They also reinforced Soviet partisans ranks, rightly perceived as a vanguard of communism.

The aim of studies collected in this volume written by Polish historians is to bring closer this complicated theme.