What in Odessa?

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Staff of the International Centre of the History and Sociology of the Second World War and its aftermath HSE prepared book - « Odessa: life under occupation . 1941-1944 » /comp. , Br. Ed. and author of introd . Article OV Budnitskii ; podgot . texts annotated. TL Voronina , annotated. KR Galeeva . - Moscow: Russian Political Encyclopedia (ROSSPEN ) , 2013 .

According to Alexander Werth , author of the famous " Russian War 1941-1945 ", many people from Odessa , " felt like a fish in water in the seemingly carefree Odessa, it was under Antonescu - with its restaurants and the " black market " , its brothels and gambling dens , clubs for playing bingo, cabaret and all other attributes of " European culture " , including opera, ballet and symphony orchestras . " During the occupation became Odessites time harshest terror . And at the same time it was a period of free enterprise , a kind neonepa differs sharply Odessa from other occupied cities of the USSR .

The book includes memories of Odessa during the occupation learned from Bakhmeteff Archive at Columbia University (New York ) and the emigre publications .