@article{Мартиненко_2021, title={Ideological and propaganda aspects of the policy of the Third Reich towards German immigrants from the USSR in 1944}, volume={31}, url={https://periodicals.karazin.ua/uahistory/article/view/17371}, DOI={10.26565/2227-6505-2020-31-05}, abstractNote={<p><em>The article aims</em><em>&nbsp;to reveal the peculiarities of Nazi Germany’s propaganda among German refugees from the USSR at the final stage of World War II.</em></p> <p><em>The research methodology is based on</em><em>&nbsp;the principles of historicism and objectivity and a set of special (historical-genetic, historical-systemic, and chronological) and generally scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, induction, and deduction).</em></p> <p><em>Scientific novelty.</em><em>&nbsp;For the first time in historiography, this article examines the issues related to the indoctrination of German refugees taken from the occupied regions of the USSR to the territory of the Third Reich in 1943-1944.</em></p> <p><em>Conclusions</em><em>. Throughout the fall of 1943 – spring 1944. about 350,000 ethnic Germans were evacuated from the occupied Ukrainian territories by the authorities of Nazi Germany. The bulk of the refugees were accommodated in the imperial district of Warthegau. Due to the lack of free land funds, the German administration decided to use them as agricultural workers until the war. Therefore, the authorities of the Nazi Party were tasked with convincing the refugees that at this stage, they need to think not about their interests but about working for the good of Germany, on whose victory their future fate depended. At the end of February 1944, the first instructions followed from Berlin regarding establishing political and cultural work with the Soviet Germans. The German authorities often preferred traditional propaganda tools, for example, printed materials and films. Work with children and adolescents took on somewhat different forms. Like during the occupation of the Soviet regions, it was supervised by the leadership of the Hitler Youth. However, the previous propaganda technologies, due to the sociocultural specifics of the new settlers, on the whole, turned out to be ineffective. The lack of results was mainly due to many Soviet Germans’ growing discontent with their socioeconomic position.</em><strong><em>&nbsp; </em></strong></p&gt;}, journal={V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Bulletin ‘History of Ukraine. Ukrainian Studies: Historical and Philosophical Sciences’}, author={Мартиненко, Володимир}, year={2021}, month={Jun.}, pages={60-71} }