Homepage of Dr. Viktor Krieger

1. Biography and publications in German and Russian

• Bundesbürger russlanddeutscher Herkunft: historische Schlüsselerfahrungen und kollektives Gedächtnis. Münster: Lit-Verlag 2013, 272 S., geb., ISBN 978-3-643-12073-1 (Geschichte, Kultur und Lebensweisen der Russlanddeutschen; Bd. 1).
   
• Rossiiskie nemtsy vchera i segodnia. Narod v puti [Germans from Russia Yesterday and Today. People on the Way]. Transl. from German. Moscow 2010. With lots of rare illustrations, several tables.
  
  Rein, Volga, Irtysh. Iz istorii nemtsev Tsentral’noi Azii [Rhine-Volga-Irtysh: from the history of Germans in Central Asia]. Almaty: Daik-Press 2006, 276 p.+16 p. illustrations, hardback, ISBN 9965-798-05-2. In Russian. (Available at the author)
   

2. Publikations in English

• A Memorial Essay, in: Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Volume 34, 4/2011, p. 1-19
   
• Volga German Intellectuals as Victims of Political Persecution. ©  Lincoln, Nebraska, USA: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia 2009, 57 p. With photographs and document reproductions, see p. 36-55.
   
• Patriots or Traitors? - The Soviet Government and the ‚German Russians’ After the Attack on the USSR by National Socialist Germany. In: Russian-German Special Relations in the Twentieth Century: A Closed Chapter? / edited by Karl Schloegel. (= German Historical Perspectives/XIX), Oxford – New York 2006, p. 133-163.
   
• Secret Criminal Proceedings Against the Last Volga German Government During the Years 1944-46. ©  Lincoln, Nebraska, USA: American Historical Society of Germans From Russia 2005, 45 p. With photographs and document reproductions, see p. 35-45.
   
• About Captain Kuehnen, in: Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Volume 28, 3/2005, S. 36-38 (The great Russian writer Vladimir Korolenko defended Russian Germans who were persecuted during the First World War)

3. Translations in English:

• Disobedience, Portest and Resistance by Russian-Germans in the Soviet State. In 9 parts (with illustrations):
   

Part 8. Internal Estrangement from the Soviet State: The Emigration Movement

Part 7. The Autonomy Movement

 Part 6. In Exile under Special Regime

Part 5. Forms of resistance in Forced Labor Camps

Part 4. Religiously Motivated Civil Disobedience and Resistance during the Inter-War Period

Part 3. Independent Mennonite Cooperative and Farmer Unrest during the Years of Radical Change

Part 2. Armed Resistance in the Black Sea Region and Critical Behavior on the Part of the German Leadership Cadre

Part 1: Farmer uprisings during the years of militant Communism, 1918-1921
 

• Chronology of anti-German Measures in Russia/USSR
   
• Germanophobia in the Russian Empire and in the Soviet Union. In 3 parts (with illustrations):

Part 2-1: Anti-German sentiments between the wartime

Part 2-2:  Anti-German sentiments during the years 1941-45

Part 3: From the Postwar Era to the Collapse of the USSR
 

• Chelyabmetallurgstroy of the NKVD of the USSR -- The Largest Forced Labour Camp for Russian Germans (with illustrations)