Where the Trains Were in Mourning
Deportations in Bessarabia 1940-1941
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
The secret protocol of the Hitler-Stalin pact gave the Soviet Union free hand to annex Bessarabia and North Bukovina. With military occupation, Sovietisation and terror directed against the population got underway. Thousands were persecuted, arrested, and deported to Soviet camps.
(Osteuropa 7-8/2009, pp. 219–226)