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Faculty of Humanities

 

Professor B.L. Khavkin's Report in the Framework of the Seminar "West and East: Universalism of Culture"

On October 27, 2017 Doctor of historical sciences, professor of RSHU Boris Khavkin made the report "German anti-Hitler resistance between East and West" 

Professor Khavkin noted that during the Cold War the history of the German Resistance was one of the sectors of the front of the politico-ideological struggle between East and West, in particular between the USSR and the United States. In the West the conservative church opposition was considered as an example of the "other Germany". For the Soviet Union, the embodiment of the Resistance was German communists. While the conservative opposition oriented toward the West (Britain and the USA), the Communists viewed the USSR as their ideological and political landmark. Thus, the German anti-Hitler resistance, which was the highest manifestation of opposition in the Reich, was between the two poles - the East and the West.
The special guest of the seminar was Ilya Semyonovich Kremer (the interpreter of the Soviet troops, in 1945 with the capture of Berlin he was translating interrogations of the chief of the air defense of Berlin, Colonel Hans Wellerman, secretary-general of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters).