Summary Victory turns to vengeance as the Soviets drive the occupying Germans out of the Soviet motherland and turn their sights on Berlin. It was a time of terror for ethnic minorities on both sides of the battlefront. When Hitler's "final solution" reached its horrific climax in extermination camps, prisoners? life expectancy could be measured in just hours. Stalin exiled entire ethnic nations to Siberia as punishment for the small number of ethnic collaborators in their midst. One of the ethnic groups who suffered the most was the Kalmyks from the steppe south of Stalingrad. Stalin ordered every ethnic Kalmyk to be "relocated" to even remoter regions of the Soviet Union. Families were crammed onto unsanitary transport trains; many didn't survive the journey. Officially, 93,000 Kalmyks, 68,000 Karachai people, 500,000 Chechens, 340,000 Balkars and 180,000 Tartars were deported.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Samuel West Rolf Becker Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin
Genres : History War Documentary
Release date : Oct 25, 1999
Countries of origin : Germany United Kingdom
Official sites : ABC
Language : English German Russian
Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)
Summary Victory turns to vengeance as the Soviets drive the occupying Germans out of the Soviet motherland and turn their sights on Berlin. It was a time of terror for ethnic minorities on both sides of the battlefront. When Hitler's "final solution" reached its horrific climax in extermination camps, prisoners? life expectancy could be measured in just hours. Stalin exiled entire ethnic nations to Siberia as punishment for the small number of ethnic collaborators in their midst. One of the ethnic groups who suffered the most was the Kalmyks from the steppe south of Stalingrad. Stalin ordered every ethnic Kalmyk to be "relocated" to even remoter regions of the Soviet Union. Families were crammed onto unsanitary transport trains; many didn't survive the journey. Officially, 93,000 Kalmyks, 68,000 Karachai people, 500,000 Chechens, 340,000 Balkars and 180,000 Tartars were deported.
Genres : History War Documentary
Release date : Oct 25, 1999
Countries of origin : Germany United Kingdom
Official sites : ABC
Language : English German Russian
Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)
