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Book Review: Catherine Merridale. Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006

Kathleen Guler
- 01 Jan 2015 - 
- Vol. 4, Iss: 1, pp 12
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This article is published in Saber and Scroll.The article was published on 2015-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union.

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Vectors of traumatic memories and mass-mediated representations of the ‘last’ Nazi trial of John Demjanjuk

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Russian Border Guards’ Self-Writing Online: Breaking Down the Soviet Cult of Heroism?

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Holocaust and WWII: Jews in the Red Army

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Philomela's Legacy: Rape, the Second World War, and the Ethics of Reading

TL;DR: The authors discuss the ethical quandaries of the wartime rape of German women by Russian soldiers during the last months of the war and argue that there is a legacy of violence in both silence and in writing, but there is also an ethics of reading that allows one to pay tribute to the victims' suffering even as one negotiates and recontextualizes their stories.

Rape, the Second World War, and the Ethics of Reading

TL;DR: The authors discuss the ethical quandaries of the wartime rape of German women by Russian soldiers during the last months of the war and argue that there is a legacy of violence in both silence and in writing, but there is also an ethics of reading that allows one to pay tribute to the victims' suffering even as one negotiates and recontextualizes their stories.