Escape from retribution: the collaborator’s survival strategy (based on the materials of the archival investigation of Gustav Yakobovsky)
Journal: Modern Studies in German History
Year: 2022

The article is devoted to the fate of Gustav Gustavovich Yakobovsky, an ethnic German and a Soviet citizen, who initially started his career in education and science, but during Nazi occupation of Ukraine took the path of collaborationism. The unremarkable life of the Soviet intellectual changed in 1941 with the outbreak of the German-Soviet military conflict. At the beginning of the German occupation of Dnipropetrovsk, he got a job as a translator at the Einsatzgruppe under the guidance of the