Stalin's Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers became Hitler's Collaborators, 1941-1945 by Mark Edele

Author:Mark Edele [Edele, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780192519146
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2017-06-29T04:00:00+00:00

Soldiers who had not eaten for three to four days often felt that going over to the enemy might save them from starvation,29 a causal relationship between hunger and defection both sides understood well. When the army supply base was too far from the front line and food was not delivered, noted the Head of the Red Army’s Main Political Administration in January 1943, the ‘mood’ in a division plummeted and desertion both behind its own front line and across to the enemy increased.30 The Germans, meanwhile, had long noted that once provisioning improved in a cauldron, the number of Soviet defectors decreased.31 The bitter irony was that in 1941 Soviet soldiers might have been hungry on their own side of the front line; in German detention, however, they were guaranteed to starve to death.32

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