1967–
Russian historian of Nazi women’s and youth organizations, antisemitism and anti-fascist propaganda
A 1991 graduate of the Ushinsky State Pedagogical University in Yaroslavl, he has taught in its department of world history. His 1996 dissertation dealt with the Reich Labour Service in Nazi Germany, and in 2010 he became a doctor of history with a study of Nazi girls’ and women’s organizations in the gender order of the Third Reich. He has written books on the women’s labour service (2006) and the League of German Girls, and articles on the Wehrmacht’s criminal orders of 1941 and antisemitic propaganda in the Nazi women’s organization. His 2013 article on homophobia in Soviet anti-fascist propaganda of the 1930s traced how attacking Nazis as homosexuals passed from the German Social Democrats through the Communists to Soviet propaganda.
Also known as: Alexander Ermakov
Activities and affiliations
- 1996–