In March 1945, the German desperate offensive on the Danube began. While the Sixth SS Armored Army came out of positions to establish bridgeheads across the river, the STAVKA, Russia’s supreme command, was already making plans for the attack on Vienna. For ten days the German army plodded eastward until it was left exhausted. The big breakthrough did not materialize. On March 16, the Vienna operation began. The attacker became the defender, and between Budapest and Vienna the German army fo...

De Grote Oorlog Kroniek 1914-1918 is dé serie in Nederland en Vlaanderen met als onderwerp de geschiedschrijving van en reflectie over de Eerste Wereldoorlog. De delen van deze serie verschijnen met grote regelmaat, in principe elk halfjaar. Dat wordt mogelijk gemaakt door de samenwerking tussen Uitgeverij Aspekt en de Stichting Studiecentrum Eerste Wereldoorlog (SSEW).

Deze Kroniek bevat tien op zichzelf staande essays, geschreven door Nederlandse historici.

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About 1 million inhabitants of the Soviet Union collaborated with the Nazis. This is a remarkable fact, because the Nazis, thanks to their racial policy, could not really be considered allies. And yet it happened. The aversion to Bolshevism and the hope for new freedom opened up a horizon in which collaboration between the Soviet peoples and the Germans seemed to offer a better alternative than the ‘Soviet paradise’. Historical oppression and bloody experiences played a major role in this...