Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II (94 page)

Risorgimento
Rizzi, Antonio
Rizzi, Ettore
Rjukan
Robinson, Austin
Romania/Romanians

Allied Control Commission
collaborators of the Nazis
communism; August coup; and collectivization and expropriation of farms; and the dismantling of democracy; fight for power; Stalinization
democracy dismantled
expulsion of Romanians from Ukraine
expulsion of the Germans
Iron Guard
Jewish flight
Jewish property
land expropriation
and Magyars
Minister of Justice
Ministry of the Interior
National Liberal Party
National Peasant Party;
Curierul
NDF (National Democratic Front)
Patriotic Guards
press
and the Red Army
religious suppression
Serviciul Special de Informa
ii (SSI)
Siguranta
Soviet treatment of Romanian women

Rome

vagrant children

Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rosenberg, Mrs
Rosenblum, Chaskiel
Rostov
Rotterdam
Royal Air Force
Royal Navy
Rubin, Yvette
Ruigrok, Petra
rural communities

destruction in
farmers
see
farmers

Russia/Russians

alcohol
and Germany; Russian women raped by German soldiers
and Hungarians
and Jews: allowing revenge by Jewish camp survivors; anti-Semitism
Russian soldiers
see also
Red Army; rape and violence by
Soviet control of

Rzeszów

Sabbe, August
Sacchetti, Walter
Sack, John
sadism
see also
torture
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
Saint-Lô
Salò
S
n
tescu, Constantin
Sanderson, BSM (soldier)
Sanguinetti, Félix
Santayana, George
Sardinia
Sartre, Jean-Paul
scabies
Schiff, András
Schindle, Oskar
Schio
Schmidt, Kurt
Schuetz, Hans
Schwerin
Schwientochlowitz camp
see
Swi
tochłowice camp (Zgoda)
Scînteia
Scobie, Ronald
Sebastopol
Secchia, Pietro
Second World War

as a British national industry
British war stories
civil wars bound up with
see
civil war
death toll; in death camps
see also
concentration camps; extermination of the Jews
see also
Holocaust; local massacres; starvation
destruction caused by
see
destruction; morality/moral destruction
displacement caused by
see
displacement
ending of the war for different countries
see also
civil war
famine caused by
vengeance following
see
vengeance
as a war of ideology
as a war of race
see also
ethnic cleansing; race
as wars within wars
see also
civil war
widows and orphans of

Seddon, Reuben
Sedlis, Gabik
Serbs

and Croats
and ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia
Hungarian massacre of
killed by Ustashas
nationalists

Serviciul Special de Informa
ii (SSI)
sexual morality

in labour camps

sexual violence

rape
see
rape
stripping, and the shaving of women’s heads

Sholokhov, Mikhail
Siberia
Sicily
Silesia
Simonov, Konstantin
Sington, Derrick
Sinzig camp
slave labour

camps
see
slave-labour camps
and the displaced person’s ‘liberation complex’
German prisoners doing forced labour after the war
and the issue of personal power
military control of freed labourers
relief and rehabilitation of displaced persons
revenge of slave labourers

slave-labour camps
see also
concentration camps

new ‘extermination camps’ in Poland after the war

Slovakia

collaborators of the Nazis
covering of ethnic problems
and Hungary
Jewish property
under partisan control

Slovenia/Slovenes

Slovenian Home Guards/National Army

Slutsk
Smallholders Party, Hungary
social reform

Britain
failures in

Sofia
Sokacz, Mikolaj
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Some
, election results
Soviet Union
see also specific countries

anti-Soviet resistance; ‘Forest Brothers’; Ukraine
control over European Communist parties
covering of ethnic problems
death toll in war
destruction in
displaced persons
and Eastern intolerance
and Germany; and expulsion of Germans; German prisoners of war; and the Nazi genocide; and racial ideology
and Greece
and Hungary; Soviet treatment of Hungarian women
and Marshall Aid
NKVD
see
NKVD
Poland/Ukraine division and the extension of Soviet territory
and Poland’s expulsion of Germans
and Polish/Ukrainian ethnic violence/ cleansing
postwar sphere of influence
propaganda
rape of foreign women
Red Army
see
Red Army
and Romania
rural destruction
Russia
see
Russia/Russians
Soviet prisoners of war; at Auschwitz
Soviet terror in Lithuania
Stalin’s postwar regime
see also
Stalin, Joseph; Stalinization of Romania
widows and spinsters

Spain

Communists
food rationing

Sparks, Felix L.
Spiliotopoulos, Panagiotis
Spiro, Harry
spotted fever
Spottiswoode, Colonel
Spychalski, Marian
SSI (Serviciul Special de Informa
ii)
Stalag Luft III camp
Stalin, Joseph

postwar regime; Stalinization of Romania

Stalingrad
Stan
k, Tomáš
Stankovic, M.
starvation

amongst prisoners of war

starvation –
cont.

and cannibalism
denial of food
and moral destruction

Stel’mashchuk, Iurii
Stettin
see also
Szczecin
Stevens, John
Stevenson, Donald
Steyerberg
Stignano
Stilo
Stimson, Henry
Stockholm
Stojic, Mark
Stok, Bram van der
Strahov
Stránský, Jaroslav
strike action
Strongoli
Stroop, Jürgen
Stunde nul
(‘Zero Hour’)
Sudetenland
sugar