If this is true, the brutal treatment of Volga Germans is not surprising.
If you take a
rabid anti-semtic site as proof then you will believe anything.
http://www.gulag.hu/mass_deport_1940.htm list the various peoples of 8 "nations" forcibly deported to the interior of Russia by Stalin.
There is no justification for Stalin and his paronia but there is NO proof offered by any serious research to be found online that the NKVD was comprised mainly of Jews and that Jews commanded the dozens of Gulags that they were sent to. Nor the fact the Volga Germans were singled out for any worst treatment than any other ethnic group.
The only sites to offer such information are all
extremely anti semtic and far right wing, it is not proof at all, it is racist garbage.
The link that Despot posted to prove his "facts" states amongst a tirade of anti semitism.
What the Western media inculcates us to believe is that anti-Semitism is a variety of mental illness, and not a natural and understandable reaction to demonstrable provocation. The closest that this view comes to identifying a cause is to point to Jewish success, particularly Jewish economic success, and to portray anti-Semitism as grounded in an envy of such success.
However, a more thoughtful examination of the phenomenon of anti-Semitism reveals many reasons for viewing it — at least in some of its manifestations — not as an irrational and unexplainable and gratuitous hatred, but as a natural and understandable antipathy arising from an acquaintance with Jewish misbehavior. The Shapoval volume, then, provides us with one such reason why some Ukrainian anti-Semitism might exist. The reason is that Ukrainians have been aware of the Jewish domination of the experiment in government through mass murder which went under the name of "Communism," and in which experiment Ukrainians more than any other peoples have been conscripted into playing the role of guinea pigs.
Revelant to the question of the degree to which anti-Semitism may be based on rational considerations is the Ukrainian Archive discussion of Warsaw's Alphonsenpogrom of May, 1905.
Terms of a truce. Were I authorized to represent the Ukrainian position in negotiating with Jews a cessation of verbal hostilities, I might open with "If you stop fabricating lies about us, we will stop disclosing the truth about you.".
Despot wrote
The Soviet government deliberately placed Jews as guards to GULAGs where ethnic Germans were imprisoned, and gave the Jewish guards all administrative authority. Influenced by Soviet propaganda, Jewish guards, who were well aware of the Nazis' discrimination and persecution against Jews, thought that violence against innocent Germans is justified as their national duty to revenge for their brethren's plight.
Due to this rampant violence, in a GULAG, 1,300 Volga Germans, who were imprisoned in February 1942, reduced to 300 in just two months.(which means 1,000 Germans were murdered by Jewish guards in just two month).
Please provide verifable proof,
(i) name the Gulag for a start
(ii) show the ratio of jews to othe guards there
(iii) show the ratio of all deaths in this "camp" german, and others.
The claim has been made so proof must be produced.
Holocaust Deniers always scream for proof but never produce any of their own, (except what is circulated amongst themselves for their racist fantasies ie the Rudolf Report)
I doubt any real proof will be provided, a hatred of Jews seems to the only evidence being presented.
Bear in mind one thing while the Volga Germans were being deported, Nazi Germany was starting to begin its murder of 3.5 million Russian POW's. That may have influenced treatment to, not the fiction about Jews.
By the way a lot came home from exile, surviving the Gulag system. The Gulags were brutal and millions died over the 50 years of their existence but there were never any camps like the Action Reinhard Camps, Belzec, Soribor and Treblinka - pure Death Camps, people transported and put to death immediately. Or like Auschwitz where the "useless" were killed upon arrival and the remainder worked to death.
From
http://www.gulag.hu/mass_deport_1940.htm
In 1948, the Supreme Soviet decreed that the 'special settlers' were definitively transferred, for ever. Stalin's death in 1953, and the subsequent execution of Beria, put an end to the collective condemnation and forced transfer of people simply because they belonged to a particular ethnic group. Under Khrushchev, the punitive restrictions imposed on the 3 million who had been transferred began to loosen. In September 1955, various restrictions on the rights of the Germans were annulled. Two months later, 5,000 Greeks expelled from Georgia in 1949 became the first group to be removed from the list of 'special settlers.'
In February 1956, five of the eight entire 'nations' (the Karachai, Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingush and Balkars) were named in Khrushchev's famous secret speech at the Communist Party Congress, in which he listed the forced transfers as one of the crimes committed by Stalin. Nevertheless, the 'special settlers' were not given the right to return to their ancestral homelands until 1957 (again, only the same five groups). The Chechens started returning almost immediately, and other groups soon followed. In most cases, their autonomous regions and republics were reinstated. However, none of the deported peoples were granted compensation for their losses, and land disputes became a common feature of some of the return movements (for example, in Chechnya).
The Crimean Tatars, Meskhetians and Volga Germans continued to be denied the right to return. However, under a special arrangement with the German government, Soviet Germans were allowed to emigrate to Germany, and given assistance to do so (travel costs, and various social benefits upon arrival). By the end of 1995, 1,376,000 had moved to Germany, where their continued arrival at the rate of some 200,000 per year has recently become a controversial political issue. A further 1.2 million are believed to be still living in CIS countries (mostly in Kazakstan, Kyrgystan and the Russian Federation).
