ABSTRACT
Some publications devoted to the forced labor of foreigners in the “Third Reich” were published right after the war, and the bibliography, in general, is rather extensive. American and British scholars were the first in the field: the book by D. Fried “Exploitation of foreign labor force in Germany” was published as early as 1945. In 1965 the first study directly devoted to Soviet prisoners of war was published - the study by H.A. Jacobsen “An order on commissars and mass killings of Soviet prisoners of war”. Russian emigration has contributed significantly to the historiography of forced deportations and forced labor during Second World War. A fundamental attempt to systematize and generalize personal experiences and various literary sources has been undertaken in the monograph by I. A. Dugas and F. Ya Cheron “Deleted from memory. Soviet prisoners of war between Hitler and Stalin”, published in Paris in 1994.
