ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on 180 life story interviews which were conducted with former forced laborers of Nazi Germany from the core countries of the former Soviet Union. That is, Ukraine, Belarus and the Russian Federation, and from those countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia, that is, Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia/Montenegro and Macedonia, where 54 life story interviews were conducted. The research was part of the International Forced Laborers Documentation Project, carried out by the Institute for History and Biography at Hagen University, on behalf of the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" in 2005-2006. The chapter focuses on phenomena related to the mass repression against former forced laborers of Nazi Germany after their return from Reich, or its formerly occupied territories, to the countries of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, in or shortly after 1945. The notorious filtration process of former forced laborers on their return from Germany to the Soviet Union had impact on many of them.
