Creating Killers: The Nazification of the Black Sea Germans and the Holocaust in Southern Ukraine, 1941-1944
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2019

Transnistria, a multiethnic region along southern Ukraine's Black Sea coast that Germany ceded to Romania, was an epicenter of the Holocaust in the conquered Soviet Union. This dissertation explores the role of the area's ethnically German or Volksdeutsche minority in the Holocaust. The region's ethnic Germans, the so-called Black Sea Germans, were the largest Germanophone population to come under Nazi control in the conquered Soviet Union. To secure local German-speakers as the demographic foun