About 1 million inhabitants of the Soviet Union collaborated with the Nazis. This is a remarkable fact, because the Nazis, thanks to their racial policy, could not really be considered allies. And yet it happened. The aversion to Bolshevism and the hope for new freedom opened up a horizon in which collaboration between the Soviet peoples and the Germans seemed to offer a better alternative than the ‘Soviet paradise’. Historical oppression and bloody experiences played a major role in this...

There are several biographies about Erich Ludendorff. What most of them have in common is that they stop at the year 1918, the end of the First World War. This is un-justified. At the peak of his long career, between 1915 and roughly 1925, Ludendorff developed into the strongest man on the ‘right’. Thus, the years after the war were also of great importance. He was not only an important general who, with Paul von Hin-denburg, was in supreme command of Germany’s de facto military leaders...

De belangstelling voor de periode van de Koude Oorlog blijft onverminderd groot. De generatie die haar heeft meegemaakt is intussen met pensioen en heeft de tijd om terug te blikken en erover te schrijven. De huidige generatie heeft te maken met oplopende spanning in de wereld, met echte oorlogen en wil graag weten hoe er in vroegere tijden in soortgelijke omstandigheden mee werd omgegaan.

Van de Koude Oorlog van destijds valt heel wat te leren. Deel 7 in de serie is daar weer eens het bewij...