Гуманитарные и юридические исследования (Sep 2021)
HEALTH CARE IN THE KUBAN AND STAVROPOL REGIONS DURING THE GERMAN NAZI OCCUPATION (1942-1943): SOURCE STUDY PROBLEMS
Abstract
The article deals with issues related to the study of information sources on the functioning of the health system of Krasnodar and Stavropol regions during the Nazi occupation, which lasted from July 1942 to October 1943. Despite the large number of different materials about the stay of the occupants in the Kuban and Stavropol, a number of important aspects related to the original plans of the German command in relation to the local population, as well as their practical implementation, remain poorly studied. For the occupation authorities, issues related to the protection of the health of the civilian population and the provision of medical services to them were not among the priority issues, in many respects their mention in the documents of the occupation period had an ideological background and was exclusively for propaganda purposes. Nevertheless, a number of materials quite clearly demonstrates the existence of a certain system of measures developed by the German authorities and aimed at both ensuring their own safety and maintaining a satisfactory state of health of the local population involved in economic relations under the "new order", including as a labor force. The study of Soviet sources, in turn, indicates that for many years the information contained in them had a certain bias and largely described the damage caused to the health system of the Kuban and Stavropol due to the stay of the German fascist troops on their territory. On the positive side, there is a significant amount of factual data contained in these sources, originally recorded by commissions of various levels and subsequently included in the materials of the Extraordinary state Commission for the identiication and investigation of the atrocities of the Nazi invaders and their accomplices and the damage caused by them. The analysis of various sources of information should contribute to the study and objective description of the policy of the occupation authorities in the ield of health protection of residents of the region, the work of medical institutions, as well as the most complete summing up of the occupants' stay in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions.
