About the book: 2011 / Abstract of the dissertation for the degree of candidate of historical sciences. The dissertation describes about the situation of the most discriminated against (pages 122-146) category of workers in Nazi Germany - eastern workers (“Ostarbeiters”): Ukrainians, Russians, Belarusians. Male ostarworkers were sent by the authorities to the most harmful and dangerous industries. Women Ostarbeiters were often subjected to violence, and the children born were forcibly taken away and (if the father was not German) sent to orphanages, where most of the “inferior babies” died (pp. 144-145). The treatment of foreign Ostarbeiter workers, as follows from the letter of the Governor General of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine R. Koch, should have been based on severity. He wrote in February 1943: “I demand that the main point in your leadership of the Ukrainians be cruelty and justice.” For the majority of former “Eastern workers” who returned to the Soviet Union, the end of their stay in German captivity was only a continuation or even the beginning of new ones. difficulties (discrimination, and often – sending to the Gulag). Many of those who went through the experience of being in Nazi Germany were repressed after returning to their homeland, others preferred to remain silent about their past. The problem of forced labor of millions of citizens of the USSR in the enemy’s economy was hushed up in Soviet society and historical science for many years.